The IP5 Statistics Report 2021 was jointly prepared by the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japanese Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The main content of the report includes the following four parts: the first part is an introduction to the five offices, mainly introducing the latest development of the five offices, as well as relevant data statistics; the second part introduces global patent activities, including global patent applications for invention, authorizations, patent application flows among countries/regions, and family applications; the third part involves patent activities of the five offices, which, by comparing the patent application and authorization data of the five offices in 2020 and 2021, shows the latest patent activities of the five offices; and the last part is about the five offices and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), which introduces the latest situation of the patent activities of the five offices using the PCT. The IP5 Statistics Report 2021 comprehensively reflects the latest situation of patent activities of the five offices and is an important statistical material for studying and analyzing the global patent development.

IP5 Statistics Report 2021 (Chinese version)

IP5 Statistics Report 2021 (English version)

(Source: CNIPA website)