PCT StatisticsPCT Working GroupEighth Session Geneva
May 26 to 29, 2015
Outline
PCT Application Filings
PCT National Phase Entries
Receiving Offices
International Authorities
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017130,000
150,000
170,000
190,000
210,000
230,000
250,000
7.1% 5.1% 4.4%1.7% 2.8% 2.6%
Growth Applications
PCT Application Filings
195,335205,272
214,400218,100
224,100229,900
Filing Trends for Top 5 Origins
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60,000
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International fil ing year
Distribution of PCT Applicants in 2014
Businesses
Individuals
Universities
Government and Research Institu-tions
Top Applicants
Businesses: Huawei Technologies – 3,442 applications publishedUniversities: University of California – 413 applications publishedGovernment and Research Institutions: Commissariat à l’Energie Atomiqueet aux Energies Alternatives – 434 applications published
Main Fields of Technology in 2014 Main Fields of Technology by Percentage of Total
Computer Technology 17,653 applications (8.4%)
Digital Communication 16,165 applications (7.7%)
Electrical Machinery 15,220 applications (7.3%)
Largest increases:
Control: +21.4%
Computer technology: +19.4%
Medical Technology: +17.1%
Largest decreases:
Optics: -5.2%
Semiconductors: -2.0%
Analysis of biological materials: -0.8%
PCT Applications by Medium of Filing
Distribution in 2014: 6.4% paper, 2.3% PCT-EASY, 91.3% fully electronic (PDF 65.1%, XML 26.1%)
Share of ful ly electronic fil ings (%)
0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 14.1 26.2 32.4 52.7 64.1 72.6 78.3 82.8 87.3 89.6 91.3
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P aper P aper + P CT EASYF ully e lec tron ic (P DF , EF S-W eb and XM L )
Distribution of Filing Languages in 2014
Of the top 5 filing languages:
Increases for Chinese (+18.7%), Korean (+6.5%), and English (+5.7%)
Decrease for Japanese (-3.4%)
German almost unchanged
Share (%)
51.6 18.7 10.7 7.7 5.1 3.0 0.9 0.8 0.4 0.2
110,054
39,848
22,93016,534
10,8946,471
1,985 1,696 919 490
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Chines
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German
Korean
French
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Russia
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Portug
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Language
PCT- National Phase Entries
. 16.1 40.0 16.1 18.6 8. 6 20.8 8. 4
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P CT na tiona l phas e entriesGrowth rate (% )
Appl ication year
565,500 national phase entries estimated for 2013 (+4.3%)
475,500 non-resident national phase entries (55.3% of all non-resident applications in 2013)
Average Number of National Phase Entries (NPEs) per PCT Application – Top 15 High Income Origins
Change from 2009
1.0 0.5 1.1 1.3 0.7 0.5 1.0 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.0
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4.3 4.23.9 3.9 3.8 3.6
3.4 3.3 3.1 3.1 2.92.5
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United States of America (157,900) and Japan (120,837) had highest number of NPEs, but averaged 3.1 and 2.9 NPEs per application
Switzerland had 5.3 NPEs per application.
Average Number of National Phase Entries (NPEs) per PCT Application – Top 15 Middle Income Origins
China (18,016), India (3,890), Brazil (1,250) and South Africa (1,140) had highest number of NPEs
China had lowest number of NPEs per PCT application (1.0) among top 10 origins
Change from 2009
7.8 1.5 -0.4 1.0 1.0 1.4 1.4 0.4 0.7 -0.5 0.3 0.6 0.1 0.5 -0.5
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3.73.0 3.0 2.6 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.0
1.3 1.2 1.2 1.0 0.90.2
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PCT NPEs for Top 10 Offices in 2013
USPTO had most NPEs in 2013 (nearly 120,000)
Highest growth among top 10 Offices: KIPO (+14.4%), USPTO (+9.0%) and IP Australia (+8.4%)
Gro wth ra te (% ): 2012 -13
9 .0 2 .3 4 .6 2 .1 14 .4 -5 .9 -1 .0 -0 .4 8 .4 4 .1
119,899
87,367
72,867
54,157
35,16827,592 26,627 22,576 20,720
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PCT NPEs for Next 10 Offices in 2013
Highest growth among next 10 Offices: Germany (+17.0%) and Thailand (+16.9%)
Gro wth ra te (% ): 2012 -13
2 .0 -1 .7 . -2 .7 16 .9 5 .4 17 .0 -8 .6 -1 .3 3 .8
11,766
6,557 6,129 6,1055,604 5,284 5,253 5,101
3,8083,063
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PCT Applications by Receiving Office
Filings increased in 2014 for 12 of the top 15 receiving Offices
Largest increases: China (+18.2%) and Germany (+17.8%)
The top 15 receiving Offices received 96% of allPCT applications filed in 2014
Growth rate (%): 2013-14
7.7 -4.1 2.9 18.2 5.9 2.1 9.1 6.5 4.3 -4.7 17.8 6.8 0.5 1.1 -12.2
62,133
41,298
32,96827,107
13,17710,615
4,247 3,528 2,181 1,733 1,718 1,625 1,221 1,211 1,111
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Spain
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Receiving office
PCT applications for selected receiving Offices of middle-income countries in 2014
Of the receiving Offices in middle-income countries that received the most applications in 2014, sharp rise for Turkey (+26.2%), declines for India (-6.9%) and Brazil (-16.7%)
Growth rate (%): 2013-14
-6.9 -16.7 26.2 7.4 10.8 -16.3 -6.6 -33.7 -10.8 -20.0 -20.4 2.4 9.1 29.4 10.0
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Receiving office
Receiving Offices: Timeliness of Transmitting PCT Applications to the IB
Average transmission time between international filing date and date of received rose to 3.4 weeks in 2014
83.5% of PCT applications transmitted to IB within 4 weeks in 2014 (86.9% in 2013).
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Av erage tim e lines s in trans m itting P CT applic a tions
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Search Reports established by International Searching Authority
First full year of operations in 2014 for Egypt and India
Average Timeliness in transmitting ISRs to the IB from Date of Receipt of Search Copy
Average timeliness in transmitting ISRs to the IB was 3.6 months - shortest time since 2001
67% of PCT applications transmitted to IB within 3 months from date of receipt of search copy (65% in 2013)
77.7% of all ISRs issued within 16 months of prioritydate (77.3% in 2013)
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Av erage tim e lines s in trans m itting ISRs (from rec e ipt o f s ea rc h c opy )
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Distribution of Supplementary International Search Requests
Year
Supplementary International Searching Authority 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Austria 1 2 2 2
European Patent Office 3 7 21 30 61
Finland 1
Nordic Patent Institute 1 3
Russian Federation 35 31 19 32 46
Sweden 2 2 3
Total 41 41 46 67 109
The EPO and Rospatent accounted for 98.2% of requests for supplementary international search in 2014
IPRPs (Chapter II) by International Preliminary Examination Authority
Reports established by IPEA fell by 6.5% in both 2013 and 2014 to 13,742
84.3% of IPRPs (Chapter II) were produced by theEPO, the JPO or the USPTO
Average Timeliness in transmitting IPRPs
Average time in transmitting IPRPs fell to 28.9 months in 2014, similar to level observed in 2003
73.2% of all IPRPs were transmitted to the IB within 28 months of priority date (72.8% in 2013)
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Av erage tim e lines s in trans m itting Interna tiona l P re lim ina ry Repo rts on P a tentab il ity (from prio rity da te )
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Further information:
2015 PCT Yearly Review
The International Patent SystemWIPO Publication No. 901E/2015
WIPO IP Statistics Data Center
http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/
Patent Prosecution Highway Portal Site
http://www.jpo.go/jp/ppph-portal/index.htm