Paola Giancane Rome, 18.07.2017Lawyer, Department of PCT Affairs, EPO

Status update on PCT in 2016/17

Contracting States

Latest PCT statistics

PCT Contracting States (152) (June 2017)

Overview of PCT applications

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78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 00 02 04 06 08 10 12 14 16

Source: WIPO statistics:

http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ipstats/en/docs/infographics_pct_2016.pdf

In 2016: 233.000 (+7,3%)

Expected trend of PCT applications

Source: Economics and Statistics Division, WIPO

214,322217,233

233,000

243,000

251,200259,600

PCT applications in 2016 by country of origin

Source: WIPO statistics database

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US JP CN DE KR FR GB NL CH SE IT CA IL AU FI

CN: +44.7%

IT: +9.3% (3.363)

IL: +9.1%

IN: +8.3%

JP: +2.7%

US: -0.9%

FR: -2.5%

PCT applications filed by region

Source: WIPO Statistics, PCT Yearly review 2017

Distribution of PCT applications by applicant type

PCT Applications by Publication Language in 2016

Source: WIPO Statistics, PCT Yearly review 2017

Distribution of PCT applications by filing medium & RO

Source: WIPO Statistics Database, April 2017

Source: WIPO Statistics Database, April 2017

PCT applications for top 20 ROs in 2016

ISRs issued by ISA

Source: WIPO Statistics Database, April 2017

SIS Requests

The EPO accounted for 93.6% of requests for SIS in 2016

Source: WIPO statistics database

IPRPs (Chapter II) by International Preliminary Examination

Authority

63.3% of IPRPs were issued by the EPOSource: WIPO Statistics Database, April 2017

Direct European applications and international (PCT)

applications entering the European phase

Granted patents per country of origin