Top 10 Country Total Patent (Invention) History (1980-2018)

World Patent applications, residents (IP.PAT.RESD) ，This video shows the Top 10 countries with the highest number of patents (innovations) from 1980 to 2018. East Asian (especially Japan, China, and South Korea) countries and the USA have been dominating since the start of the video.

A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling, and importing an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention.


Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office.
Long definition Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office for exclusive rights for an invention--a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period, generally 20 years.