1、European Patent Office/Japan Patent Office/Korean Intellectual Property Office/National Intellectual Property Administration,PRC/United States Patent and Trademark OfficeIP5 Statistics Report2021 Edition IP5 Statistics Report 2021 Edition IP5 Statistics Report 2021 Edition European Patent Office,Jap

2、an Patent Office,Korean Intellectual Property Office,China National Intellectual Property Administration,United States Patent and Trademark Office Edited by EPO,November 2022 IP5 Statistics Report 2021 Edition Direct access to main chapters of the report:Executive Summary Preface Chapter 1:Introduct

3、ion Chapter 2:The IP5 Offices Chapter 3:Worldwide patenting activity Chapter 4:Patent activity at the IP5 Offices Chapter 5:The IP5 Offices and the Patent Cooperation Treaty(PCT)Chapter 6:Other work Annex 1:Definitions of the IP5 Offices expenditures Annex 2:Definitions of terms and statistics on pr

4、ocedures Annex 3:Acronyms Table of contents IP5 Statistics Report 2021 Executive Summary i Executive Summary The IP5 Statistics Report(IP5 SR)is an annual compilation of patent statistics for the five largest intellectual property(IP)offices the IP5 Offices namely the European Patent Office(EPO),the

5、 Japan Patent Office(JPO),the Korean Intellectual Property Office(KIPO),the China National Intellectual Property Administration(CNIPA)and the United States Patent and Trademark Office(USPTO).Worldwide patenting activity until 20201:-At the end of 2020,15.8 million patents were in force in the world(

6、+6.0 percent).91 percent of these patents were in force in one of the IP5 Offices jurisdictions.-In 2020,3.3 million patent applications were filed worldwide,either as direct national,direct regional or international phase PCT applications,of which 93 percent originated from the IP5 regions(IP5 Bloc