LibGuides: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright: Patent and Trademark Statistics

Patenting and Trademarking Activity as a Source of Information About Technology

Analyzing patent and trademark applications (and issued documents) help us understand trends in technology through factors including:

Field of invention / business activity
- Where are inventors and entrepreneurs focusing their attention in a particular period?
Geographic areas supporting invention and other business activity
- How many inventors are from a certain city or country?
- Over time, what is the trend for invention or for trademark applications in a country?
Companies supporting invention or trademarking
Who is inventing . . . Are they academic, independent, government, corporate?

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Statista provides statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources. It provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government agencies.
Statista includes data on more than 85,000 topics from 18,000 sources. About 20 percent of the total data in Statista comes from sources available free online, such as the World Bank and the U.S. Census, but the data also includes numerous exclusive sources which include industry, marketing, and trade groups. Much of the data is related to marketing, demographic, government and industry information, and is international in scope. Data can be downloaded in JPG, PowerPoint and Excel.
While historical and time series data are not a focus of Statista, the metadata about each table provides all the necessary information to go to the table’s source, where historical information may be available.