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Registered inventions

Figure Created 13 Dec 2010 Published 14 Dec 2010 Last modified 01 Sep 2016

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The bar sizes show, for each country, the number of applicants to register inventions, counted as patent families. A patent family is a set of inter-related applications on the same subject. Statistics based on patent families eliminate double counts (i.e. when the same invention is registered in different patent offices).