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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?

Finding Patent and Trademark Statistics

1. For those currently affiliated with UT-Austin, a good place to find statistics on patents and trademarks is Statista.  The parameters are preset.  If you need other options, try going to the source of the data table:

 

2. WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization) has U.S. and international statistics:

 

3. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers data through:

 

4. Also, through their advanced search options, patent and trademark databases allow you to set your own search strategies to find statistics.

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