The patent indicators presented in this section count the patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Patents issued by the USPTO are particularly interesting because the importance of the U.S. market prompts inventors to file applications for a patent regardless of their nationality. When an invention is patented, the official patent document lists the names and addresses of the inventor(s) and those of the assignee(s). In other words, patents can be counted according to the inventors’ place of residence, in which case we are talking about patented inventions, or according to the assignees’ place of residence, in which case we are talking about patents granted.
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- ISQ Number of biotechnology inventions patented at the USPTO, by country, province, administrative region and census metropolitan area (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of biotechnology patents granted by the UPSTO, by country, province, administrative region and census metropolitan area (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of ICT inventions patented at the USPTO, by country, province, administrative region and census metropolitan area (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of ICT patents granted by the UPSTO, by country, province, administrative region and census metropolitan area (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of inventions patented at the USPTO, by country, province, administrative region and census metropolitan area (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of inventions patented at the USPTO in collaboration, by country and administrative region (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of inventions patented at the USPTO per billion dollars of GERD, by country and province (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of inventions patented at the USPTO per million inhabitants, by country and province (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of patents granted by the USPTO, by country, province, administrative region and census metropolitan area (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of patents granted by the USPTO by type of assignee, by province and administrative region (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of patents granted by the USPTO in co-ownership, by country and administrative region (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of patents granted by the USPTO per billion dollars of GERD, by country and province (May 24, 2018)
- ISQ Number of patents granted by the USPTO per million inhabitants, by country and province (May 24, 2018)