Patent

Intellectual property statistical country profile 2022 Rankings are delineated on a scale of 0 to 100
Total
100, designating first place as 100, last
95
place as 0, and 50 indicating the midpoint. Abroad
Japan 90
85
80
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https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_2000_2022/jp.pdf Design Trademark
Patent
Statistics for applicants residing in this country
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l1.pdf
Patent applications; global rank 406,374 ↓1.6% 3rd
Resident applications 218,813 ↓1.6%
nd
Patent applications
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l2.pdf
Abroad applications; global rank 187,561 ↓1.5% 2
473,220 466,031 460,771 460,375
nd 458,042 456,635
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l6.pdf
Regional rank and share Asia – 2 17% 453,816
423,264 412,885 406,374
East Asia – 2nd 17.9%
nd
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l3.pdf
Resident applications per million inhabitants; global rank 1,749 2
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l4.pdf
Resident applications per 100 billion USD GDP; global rank 4,200 3rd
th
Utility model applications; global rank 4,614 ↓21.6% 5
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l5.pdf
PCT international applications; global rank 50,355 ↑0.2% 3rd
th
PCT applications per million inhabitants; global rank 402 4
PCT publications relating to renewable energy (2020-2022) 1,557 1%
Share of university applications (2020-2022) 2.4%
Share of women inventors (2020-2022) 9.9% 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
PCT national phase entries; global rank 133,930 ↓2.5% 2nd Resident Abroad
Share of abroad applications using the PCT System 56.3%
PCT top applicants (2020-2022)
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 7,803
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. 5,128
Sony Group Corporation 5,095
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation 4,764
Nec Corporation 3,899

Top technical fields; share Top foreign destinations; share

10% 13%
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy United States of America
6.8%
Computer technology China
5.5% 7.4% 40.4%
Semiconductors European Patent Office
5.5%
Transport Republic of Korea
4.9% 11.6%
67.3% Measurement Germany (3.4%)

Others Others
24.3%

Statistics for the IP office

https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l7.pdf
Total applications; global rank 289,530 ↑0.1% 3rd Country of origin of non-resident applications; share
Resident; share 218,813 ↓1.6% 75.6% United States of America 26,874 38.9%
Non-resident; share 70,717 ↑5.9% 24.4% China 9,842 14.2%
Patent Grants 201,420 ↑9.2% Republic of Korea 7,149 10.3%
rd
Patents in force; global rank 2,029,223 3 Germany 5,700 8.2%
National IP office - applications per examiner 174.2 Switzerland 3,411 4.9%
National IP office - grant delay in months 14.9

Trademark
Statistics for applicants residing in this country [1]
th
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l1.pdf
Trademark filings; global rank 549,015 ↓1.1% 10
Resident filings 261,688 ↓2.9%
Trademark class count in applications
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l2.pdf
Abroad filings; global rank 287,327 ↑0.5% 13th
rd
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l6.pdf
Regional rank and share Asia – 3 4.6% 768,457 791,070
719,358
East Asia – 2nd 5.7%
620,790 632,761
th
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l3.pdf
Resident filings per million inhabitants; global rank 2,091 25 555,273 549,015
525,774
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l4.pdf
Resident filings per 100 billion USD GDP; global rank 5,022 42nd
415,927
th
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l5.pdf
Madrid international applications; global rank 3,117 ↓3.6% 7 366,295

Madrid applications per million inhabitants; global rank 24.9 32nd

th
Abroad filings via the Madrid System 176,778 ↑7.4% 7
Share of abroad filings using the Madrid System 61.5%
Madrid top applicants (2020-2022)
Shiseido Company, Ltd 324 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Nintendo Co., Ltd. 222 Resident Abroad
Mizuno Corporation 84
Shimano Inc. 77
Bandai Co., Ltd. 72

Top Nice classes; share Top foreign destinations; share

11%
20.5%
Scientific and research China
8.3%
Advertising and business management United States of America
7.5% 7.6%
Education European Union Intellectual Property Office
57.2%
62.4% 6.5% Scientific and technological services 5.3% Republic of Korea
4.1% Non-medicated cosmetics 5.2% United Kingdom
4.3%
Others Others

Statistics for the IP office [1]

https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l7.pdf
Total filings; global rank 344,039 ↓5.6% 10th Country of origin of non-resident filings; share
Resident; share 261,688 ↓2.9% 76.1% China 18,891 23.5%
Non-resident; share 82,351 ↓13.2% 23.9% United States of America 18,538 23.1%
Number of Classes Specified in Trademark Registrations Germany 5,957 7.4%
Trademarks in force; global rank 2,180,817 5th Republic of Korea 5,879 7.3%
National IP office - applications per examiner 1,965.9 United Kingdom 5,071 6.3%
National IP office - registration delay in days 207.0
Industrial design
Statistics for applicants residing in this country [2]
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l1.pdf
Designs in applications; global rank 91,683 ↓2.9% 13th
Resident filings 21,515 ↓2.4%
th
Design count in applications
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l2.pdf
Abroad filings; global rank 70,168 ↓3% 11
th
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l6.pdf
Regional rank and share Asia – 4 5.1% 134,651
141,351
126,259
East Asia – 3rd 5.6%
113,288
122,675
112,276 111,902 107,832
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l3.pdf
Resident filings per million inhabitants; global rank 172 18th 94,374 91,683
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l4.pdf
Resident filings per 100 billion USD GDP; global rank 413 24th
th
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/statistics-country-profile/en/_list/l5.pdf
Hague international filings; global rank 936 ↑2.5% 10
th
Abroad filings via the Hague System 23,405 ↓2.7% 9
Share of abroad filings using the Hague System 33.2%
Hague top applicants (2020-2022)
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 91
Daio Paper Corporation 81 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 40 Resident Abroad

Tomy Company, Ltd. 33
Kubota Corporation 28

Top Locarno classes; share Top foreign destinations; share

13.2%
Machines, not elsewhere specified 26.2% China
28.5%
12.4% Furnishing European Union Intellectual Property Office

48.8% Recording and communication equipment United States of America

9.7% Equipment for producing electricity 5.8% Republic of Korea

Packages and containers 7.7% United Kingdom
16.9%
8.6%
7.4% Others 15% Others

Statistics for the IP office [2]

Total filings; global rank 32,423 ↓1% 8th Country of origin of non-resident filings; share
Resident; share 21,515 ↓2.4% 66.4% China 3,023 28.4%
Non-resident; share 10,908 ↑2% 33.6% United States of America 2,699 25.4%
Number of Designs in Industrial Design Registrations 30,515 ↑7.9% Switzerland 886 8.3%
th
Industrial designs in force; global rank 270,073 5 Republic of Korea 797 7.5%
National IP office - applications per examiner 648.5 Germany 753 7.1%
National IP office - registration delay in days

Geographical indications
Geographical indications in force by product category Geographical indications in force by legal means

Plant variety
Plant variety applications filed by applicants residing in this country Plant variety in force
Resident 464 National 7,599
Abroad 1,041
Regional Community Plant Variety Office 31

Note
(1) For trademarks, filings refer to the number of classes specified in applications.
(2) For industrial designs, filings refer to number of designs contained in applications.
(3) Statistics are produced regardless of whether the home office of the applicants supplied statistics or not. An asterisk symbol indicates that the home IP office did not supply statistics.
(4) Statistics relating to "technical fields" are extracted from the Patstat database and are based on the publication date.
(5) The indicator "resident applications per million population" is available for countries with a polulation greater than one million. The "indicator per GDP" is available for countries whose total GDP exceeds 10 billion US Dollar.
(6) Shares of the top foreign destinations are based on absolute count of applications, that is, one application filed at a regional office is counted as one application only.
(7) One application filed at the Eurasian Patent Organization, the African Intellectual Property Organization, the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property, the European Union Intellectual Property Office or the Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf is multiplied
by the corresponding number of member states. One application filed at the European Patent Office or the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization is counted as one application abroad if the applicant does not reside in a respective member state, or as one resident application
and one application abroad if the applicant resides in a respective member state.
(8) Percentage with a plus or minus symbol indicates the percentage change from the previous year.
(9) Both national and regional data are used to establish the list of countries relating to non-resident filings.

Source: WIPO statistics database; last updated: 12/2023