Ranking of the 10 countries who filed the most international patent applications 2017

The data displays a ranking of the 10 countries who filed the most international patent applications in 2017. In 2017, the U.S. were leading the ranking with a total of 59,624 international (PCT) patent applications filed in that year. At this time the most international patent applications filed by a single company came from Huawei Technologies with 4,024. Huawei Technologies was followed by ZTE Corp. with 2,965