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AE United Arab Emirates AG Antigua and Barbuda AL Albania (EP) AM Armenia (EA) AO Angola AT Austria (EP) AU Australia AZ Azerbaijan (EA) BA Bosnia and Herzegovina BB Barbados BE Belgium (EP) BF Burkina Faso (OA) BG Bulgaria (EP) BH Bahrain BJ Benin (OA) BR Brazil BW Botswana (AP) BY Belarus (EA) BZ Belize CA Canada CF Central African Republic (OA) CG Congo (OA) CH Switzerland (EP) CI Côte d’Ivoire (OA) CL Chile CM Cameroon (OA) CN China CO Colombia CR Costa Rica
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CU Cuba CY Cyprus (EP) CZ Czech Republic (EP) DE Germany (EP) DK Denmark (EP) DM Dominica DO Dominican Republic DZ Algeria EC Ecuador EE Estonia (EP) EG Egypt ES Spain (EP) FI Finland (EP) FR France (EP) GA Gabon (OA) GB United Kingdom (EP) GD Grenada GE Georgia GH Ghana (AP) GM Gambia (AP) GN Guinea (OA) GQ Equatorial Guinea (OA) GR Greece (EP) GT Guatemala GW Guinea-Bissau (OA) HN Honduras HR Croatia (EP) HU Hungary (EP) ID IndonesiaIE Ireland (EP)
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IL Israel IN India IS Iceland (EP) IT Italy (EP) JP Japan KE Kenya (AP) KG Kyrgyzstan (EA) KM Comoros KN Saint Kitts and Nevis KP Democratic People’s Republic of Korea KR Republic of Korea KZ Kazakhstan (EA) LA Laos People’s Democratic Republic LC Saint Lucia LI Liechtenstein (EP) LK Sri Lanka LR Liberia (AP) LS Lesotho (AP) LT Lithuania (EP) LU Luxembourg (EP) LV Latvia (EP) LY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya MA Morocco MC Monaco (EP) MD Republic of Moldova (EA) ME MontenegroMG Madagascar
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MK The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (EP) ML Mali (OA) MN Mongolia MR Mauritania (OA) MT Malta (EP) MW Malawi (AP) MX Mexico MY Malaysia MZ Mozambique (AP) NA Namibia (AP) NE Niger (OA) NG Nigeria NI Nicaragua NL Netherlands (EP) NO Norway (EP) NZ New Zealand OM Oman PE Peru PG Papua New Guinea PH Philippines PL Poland (EP) PT Portugal (EP) RO Romania (EP) RS Serbia (EP) RU Russian Federation (EA) SC Seychelles SD Sudan (AP) SE Sweden (EP)SG Singapore
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SI Slovenia (EP) SK Slovakia (EP) SL Sierra Leone (AP) SM San Marino (EP) SN Senegal (OA) ST Sao Tome and Principe SV El Salvador SY Syrian Arab Republic SZ Swaziland (AP) TD Chad (OA) TG Togo (OA) TH Thailand TJ Tajikistan (EA) TM Turkmenistan (EA) TN Tunisia TR Turkey (EP) TT Trinidad and Tobago TZ United Republic of Tanzania (AP) UA Ukraine UG Uganda (AP) US United States of America UZ Uzbekistan VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VN Viet Nam ZA South Africa ZM Zambia (AP) ZW Zimbabwe (AP) |
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Top Countries/Region of Origin Using PCT (Provisional Estimate)
The Republic of Korea overtook the Netherlands as the 6th biggest user of the PCT and China dislodged Canada, Italy and Australia to take the position of 10th largest PCT user. The top users of the international patent system remained unchanged, namely: United States of America, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. And, for the second year running, the most impressive rates of growth came from North East Asia—namely Japan, the Republic of Korea and China, which between them accounted for 24.1% of all international applications, compared to 34.6% from the countries party to the European Patent Convention and 33.6% from the United States of America. The top 15 countries of origin are shown in the table below. The most significant changes in 2006 are the rankings of the Republic of Korea (5th, up 1 place) and China (8th, up 2 places). All together, the European Patent Office Member States account for 50,016 PCT international applications, which is an increase of 5.6% over 2005
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