In 2020, a total of 579,230 patent applications were filed by U.S. companies using the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). A further 10,005 patent applications were filed using the Madrid system, and another 531 were filed using the Hague system.
Number of international patent applications of U.S. companies from 2002 to 2020, by treaty system used
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Statistics on Patents in the United States
Overview
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- Premium Statistic Number of patent applications and grants in the U.S. FY 2021, by type
- Premium Statistic Number of patent application filings in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Premium Statistic Number of patents issued in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Premium Statistic Number of patents in force in the U.S. 2004-2020
- Premium Statistic Number of patents granted to U.S. companies 2009-2020
- Basic Statistic Companies with the most patents granted 2020-2021
Patents in detail
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- Premium Statistic Number of patent grants in the U.S. FY 2021, by state
- Premium Statistic Number of U.S. patents issued FY 2017-FY 2021, by residency of applicant
- Premium Statistic Number of patent applications U.S. 2020, by fields of technology
- Premium Statistic Ranking of U.S. companies with the most international patent applications 2020
- Premium Statistic Number of international patent applications of U.S. companies 2002-2020
Utility patents
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- Premium Statistic Number of utility patent application filings in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Premium Statistic Number of utility patents issued in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Premium Statistic Share of utility patent grants issued U.S. FY 2021, by entity size and origin
- Premium Statistic Ranking of the 20 countries with the most utility model applications 2021
Industrial design
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- Premium Statistic Number of design patent application filings in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Premium Statistic Number of design patents issued in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Premium Statistic Number of industrial design patent filings by U.S. companies 2009-2020
- Premium Statistic Number of industrial design patent registrations by U.S. companies 2009-2020
Plant patents
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- Premium Statistic Number of plant patent application filings in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Premium Statistic Number of plant patents issued in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Premium Statistic Ranking of the 20 countries with the most plant variety applications 2021
- Premium Statistic Ranking of the 20 countries with the most plant variety grants 2021
- Premium Statistic Number of plant varieties in force for selected countries 2021
Patent holders
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- Premium Statistic Intellectual property law firms by number of overall filings U.S. 2016-2020
- Premium Statistic Leading university owners of United States issued utility patents 2020
- Premium Statistic U.S. patents granted to Boeing 2010-2022
- Premium Statistic U.S. patents granted to Honeywell International in the U.S. 2010-2022
- Premium Statistic Patents granted to Raytheon 2010-2022
- Premium Statistic U.S. patents granted to Lockheed Martin 2010-2021
- Premium Statistic Number of patents issued to the U.S. government FY 2021, by department
Further related statistics
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- Number of patent reissue application filings in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Number of patents issued to foreign residents U.S. FY 2016-2021
- Number of reissue patents issued in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Number of patent applications filed by foreign residents U.S. FY 2015-2018
- Ranking of organizations with defensive publications/SIR grants in the U.S. 2015
- Ranking of organizations with plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015
- Number of plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin
- Number of independent inventors in the U.S. 1998-2015
- Number of independent inventors in the U.S. as of 2015, by state
- Number of technology patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin
- Global clean energy patent ownership 2015, by country
- U.S. clean technology patent ownership by major state 2017
- Genetic drugs: percentage of patents worldwide 2010
- Space-related patent applications filed under the PCT 2000-2011
- Global clean energy patent assignees 2015
- Quantum computing patent families by company 2000-2017
- Patent applications filed per million inhabitants from the Nordics 2012-2021
- Industry revenue of “R&D in the social sciences and humanities“ in Pennsylvania 2012-2024
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- Number of patents issued to foreign residents U.S. FY 2016-2021
- Number of reissue patents issued in the U.S. FY 2000-FY 2021
- Number of patent applications filed by foreign residents U.S. FY 2015-2018
- Ranking of organizations with defensive publications/SIR grants in the U.S. 2015
- Ranking of organizations with plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015
- Number of plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin
- Number of independent inventors in the U.S. 1998-2015
- Number of independent inventors in the U.S. as of 2015, by state
- Number of technology patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin
- Global clean energy patent ownership 2015, by country
- U.S. clean technology patent ownership by major state 2017
- Genetic drugs: percentage of patents worldwide 2010
- Space-related patent applications filed under the PCT 2000-2011
- Global clean energy patent assignees 2015
- Quantum computing patent families by company 2000-2017
- Patent applications filed per million inhabitants from the Nordics 2012-2021
- Industry revenue of “R&D in the social sciences and humanities“ in Pennsylvania 2012-2024
WIPO. (November 1, 2021). Number of international patent applications of U.S. companies from 2002 to 2020, by treaty system used [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 25, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/256749/number-of-international-patent-applications-of-us-companies/
WIPO. "Number of international patent applications of U.S. companies from 2002 to 2020, by treaty system used." Chart. November 1, 2021. Statista. Accessed March 25, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/256749/number-of-international-patent-applications-of-us-companies/
WIPO. (2021). Number of international patent applications of U.S. companies from 2002 to 2020, by treaty system used. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 25, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/256749/number-of-international-patent-applications-of-us-companies/
WIPO. "Number of International Patent Applications of U.S. Companies from 2002 to 2020, by Treaty System Used." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Nov 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/256749/number-of-international-patent-applications-of-us-companies/
WIPO, Number of international patent applications of U.S. companies from 2002 to 2020, by treaty system used Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/256749/number-of-international-patent-applications-of-us-companies/ (last visited March 25, 2023)
Number of international patent applications of U.S. companies from 2002 to 2020, by treaty system used [Graph], WIPO, November 1, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/256749/number-of-international-patent-applications-of-us-companies/