World Intellectual Property Indicators Report 2022
November 10 , 2023
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- This report was released by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
- Patent filings by Indians surged by 31.6% in 2022, the sharpest increase globally, reflecting the country’s growing innovation ecosystem.
- Innovators worldwide filed 3.46 million patent applications in 2022.
- It is 1.7% higher when compared with the previous year.
- The Indian innovators filed 15,495 more patent applications in 2022 than in the previous year.
- This is the 11th consecutive year of increase in patent applications by Indians.
- China received 33,605 more applications than in 2021.
- In absolute terms, India accounts for the sixth largest number of patent applications globally.
- China is by far the largest followed by the US, Japan, South Korea and European Union.
- China’s share of the world total has risen from 27.7% in 2012 to 46.8% in 2022.
- In contrast, the US share has declined from 23% to 17.2% over the past decade.
- The bulk of intellectual property (IP) filing activity occurs in Asia, which accounted for 67.9% of global patent filing activity in 2022.
- China accounts for nearly half of the intellectual property filing activity globally.
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