PCT – Statistics

PCT – Statistics

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Working Group Seventh Session

Geneva, June 10 to 13, 2014

Outline1) PCT International Filings

2) PCT National Phase Entries

3) Receiving Offices

4) International Authorities

5) PCT – Patent Prosecution Highway

1) PCT – International Application Filings

195,320205,373

214,800221,700

228,100234,200

Filing Trends for Top 5 Origins

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20,000

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PCT

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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

United Sta tes o f Am eric aJapan China Germ any Republic o f Ko rea

International fil ing year

Distribution of PCT Applicants in 2013

Businesses

Individuals

Universities

Government and Research Institu-tions

Top Applicants

• Businesses: Panasonic Corporation – 2,839 applications published • Universities: University of California – 398 applications published• Government and Research Institutions – Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives – 419 applications published

Main Fields of Technology in 2013

Largest increases: IT methods for management:

+27.2% Optics: +23.0% Computer technology: +18.0%

Decreases in 4 out of 35 fields: Micro-structural and nano-

technology: -8.0% Organic fine chemistry: -3.3% Pharmaceuticals: -1.3% Basic communication

process: -0.8%

Main Fields of Technology for PCT Applications by Percentage of Total:

Electrical Machinery 14,897 applications (7.8%) Computer Technology 14,684 applications (7.7%) Digital Communications 14,059 applications

(7.3%) Medical Technology 11,920 applications (6.2%)

PCT Applications by Medium of Filing

• Distribution in 2013: 7.6% paper, 2.8% PCT-EASY, 89.7% fully electronic (49.9% PDF, 27.4% XML, 12.4% EFS-Web).

Distribution of Filing Languages in 2013

• Top 10 filing languages make up 99.2% of total filings.

Share (%)51.0 20.2 9.5 8.1 5.0 3.0 0.9 0.8 0.5 0.3

104,100

41,254

19,311 16,53110,229 6,158 1,848 1,647 1,031 555

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2) PCT – National Phase Entries

• 539,300 national phase entries estimated for 2012 (+ 6.2%)• 458,800 (about 85%) of NPEs are from non-resident applications representing 55% of all non-resident patent applications filed worldwide in 2012.

. 16.4 40.3 16.6 18.5 9.1 20.2 8.2 0. 4 11.3 10.5 11.9 7.7 7.1-4.1

7.9 4.4 6.2

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PCT na tio na l pha s e entriesGro wth ra te (% )

Appl ication year

Average Number of National Phase Entries (NPEs) per PCT Application for 15 Top High-Income Origins

• United States of America has highest number of NPEs (146,988), followed by Japan (112,862) then Germany (59,966); all average between 3.1 and 3.3 NPEs per PCT application. Switzerland has the highest average number of NPEs per PCT application at 5.

Change from 20080.4 0.1 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.7 -0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.3 -0.3 0.2 -0.1

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Average Number of National Phase Entries (NPEs) per PCT Application for 15 Top Middle-Income Origins

• Among middle-income countries, China has highest number of NPEs (16,978), followed by India (3,322), Brazil (1,167) and South Africa (934).

• The top 15 middle-income countries had lower average numbers of NPEs per PCT application than their high income counterparts.

Change from 2008-0.2 0.8 1.1 0.9 -0.1 1.0 0.2 -1.7 -0.6 0.2 0.2 -1.2 0.0 -2.1 0.1

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PCT National Phase Entries for Top 10 Offices 2012

• USPTO most preferred office by National Phase Entries and had highest growth among the top 10 Offices (+ 12.7%).

Gro wth ra te (% ): 2011 -1212 .7 6 .4 8 .1 3 .0 -0 .9 3 .0 0 .5 6 .5 1 .4 2 .5

109,976

85,42169,693

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30,752 29,318 26,904 22,658 19,107 12,594PCT

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PCT National Phase Entries for Next 10 Offices 2012

Gro wth ra te (% ): 20 11 -124 .8 -0 .8 2 .2 1 .0 7 .0 12 2 .952 .4 -4 .6 8 .8 0 .2

11,533

6,670 6,275 5,583 5,014 4,793 4,490 3,8583,149 2,950

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3) PCT Applications by Receiving Office

• Ten of the top 15 receiving Offices received more applications in 2013 than in 2012. Together, these 15 Offices received almost 96% of all applications filed in 2013.

Growth rate (%): 2012-1311.2 0.7 -1.2 15.1 4.8 5.5 -5.7 1.4 -1.8 6.2 -5.5 1.1 -6.7 1.0 23.9

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43,075

32,038

22,942

12,442 10,3133,893 3,312 2,097 1,819 1,519 1,439 1,265 1,262 1,198

PCT

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Receiving office

PCT applications for selected receiving Offices of middle-income countries

• Twelve of the above 15 receiving Offices received more PCT

applications in 2013 than in 2012.

Growth rate (%): 2012-132.6 9.7 61.8 -7.8 39.1 24.8 -9.7 -7.5 24.1 88.6 77.4 11.1 23.5 33.3 13.3882

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Receiving Offices: Timeliness of Transmitting PCT Applications to the International Bureau

• Average transmission time between the international filing date and the date of receipt of the application from the receiving Office was 3.3 weeks in 2013 (3.2 weeks in 2012). • 86.9% of PCT applications transmitted to the IB within 4 weeks in 2012.

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Av erage tim e lines s in tra ns m itting PCT a pplic a tio ns

Year

4) International AuthoritiesSearch Reports by International Searching Authority

European Patent Office

Japan

Republic of Korea

China

United States of America

Russian Federation

Australia

Canada

Sweden

Spain

Israel

Finland

Brazil

Austria

Nordic Patent Institute

India

Egypt

77395

42433

30461

23737

16635

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Average Timeliness in transmitting ISRs to the IB measured from Date of Receipt of Search Copy

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Av era ge tim e lines s in trans m itting ISRs (from rec e ip t o f s ea rc h c opy )

Year

• Average timeliness in transmitting ISRs fee from 4.2 to 3.6 months between 2012 and 2013.

• 65% of ISRs transmitted to the IB within 3 months from date of receipt of search copy (57.8% in 2012).

• 77.3% of all ISRs issued within 16 months of priority date (69.9% in 2012).

Distribution of Supplementary International Search Reports by SISA

Supplementary International

Searching Authority

Year

2010 2011 2012 2013

Total 41 41 46 67

Austria   1 2 2

European Patent Office 3 7 21 30

Nordic Patent Institute 1   3

Russian Federation 35 31 19 32

Sweden 2 2 3

Finland 1

02,0004,0006,0008,000

10,00012,00014,00016,00018,000

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

IPR

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Year

Others

USPTO

JPO

EPO

International Preliminary Examination Authorities

• Reports produced by IPEAs fell by 6.3% from 2012 to 2013.• For 2013, 84.5% of IPRPs (Chapter II) were produced by the EPO,

the JPO or the USPTO.

Average Timeliness in Transmitting IPRPs

• Average time taken to transmit IPRPs increased from 27.6 months

in 2001 to 30.6 months in 2013. 72.8% of IPRPs transmitted within 28 months (68.4% in 2012).

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Av erage tim e lines s in trans m itting In te rna tiona l P re l im ina ry Repo rts o n P a tentab il ity (from prio ri ty da te )

Year

5) PCT-Patent Prosecution Highway

• 6,336 PCT-PPH requests in 2013 (4,577 in 2012) • In 2013, 53 PCT-PPH pilots were active, with the participation of 24 Offices, including 14 International Authorities.

Office of PCT national phase entry

International authority

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Japan 726 952 572 206 221 - - 19 22 7 8 0 2,733Republic of Korea 1,000 44 206 56 - - - - - - - - 1,306European Patent Office 941 207 - - - - - - - - - - 1,148China 366 36 - 13 - - - - - 1 0 - 416United States of America 154 12 24 20 36 20 12 8 - 4 - 2 292Canada 42 - - - - 101 - - - - - - 143Australia 89 - - - - - 23 - - - - - 112Sweden 64 13 - - - - - - - - - - 77Russian Federation 35 1 6 - - - - - - - - - 42Finland 12 2 1 - - - - - - 1 - 0 16Israel 14 1 - - - - - - - - - 1 16Austria 14 - - 0 - - - - - - - - 14Nordic Patent Institute 10 4 - - - - - - - - - 14Spain 4 0 - - - - - - - 0 3 - 7Total 3,471 1,272 809 295 257 121 35 27 22 13 11 3 6,336

Further information:2014 PCT Yearly Review

The International Patent System(to be published soon)

2013 World Intellectual Property IndicatorsWIPO Publication No:941E/2013

Statistics on the PCT Systemhttp://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/pct/

Patent Prosecution Highway Portal Sitehttp://www.jpo.go.jp/ppph-portal/index.htm