{"id":442,"date":"2020-04-15T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/?p=442"},"modified":"2021-10-25T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:20:40","slug":"epo-statistics-2020-switzerland-1st-country-in-number-of-european-patent-applications-per-million-inhabitants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/epo-statistics-2020-switzerland-1st-country-in-number-of-european-patent-applications-per-million-inhabitants\/","title":{"rendered":"EPO Statistics 2020 &#8211; Switzerland 1st country in number of European patent applications per million inhabitants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Patent Office (EPO) recorded 180,250 European patent applications in 2020 compared to 181,406 in 2019, a slight decrease (-0.7%). The most active sectors remain those related to medical technologies, digital communication and computer science.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the country of origin of applications in 2020, the United States remains at the top of the ranking with 25% of all applications, followed by Germany (14%), Japan (12%), China (7%), France (6%), South Korea (5% for 9106 applications) and <strong>Switzerland (5% for 8112 applications)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of patent applications from EPO member countries, the top three countries are Germany (-3%), followed by France (+3.1%) and Switzerland (-1.9).<\/p>\n<p>Per million inhabitants, <strong>Switzerland<\/strong> is again <strong>the country with the highest number of European patent applications<\/strong> (965.9 per million inhabitants), followed by Sweden and Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed report:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epo.org\/about-us\/annual-reports-statistics\/statistics\/2020_fr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.epo.org\/about-us\/annual-reports-statistics\/statistics\/2020_fr.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Patent Office (EPO) recorded 180,250 European patent applications in 2020 compared to 181,406 in 2019, a slight decrease (-0.7%). The most active sectors remain those related to medical technologies, digital communication and computer science. Regarding the country of origin of applications in 2020, the United States remains at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}