World organization of intellectual property has proclaimed rating of countries, which patented inventions in 2005. As usual leading position belongs to USA. Japan takes second place for second year in a row. Russia holds 21-st position with number of inventions reduced by almost 20% comparing with year of 2004.
Number of patents received by citizens of different countries in 2005 resulted in about 134000 - this is the record for all history of WIPO. Citizens of Japan, South Korea and China contributed much to setting up of a new record.
USA leads with large advantage for many years - Americans patented 34300 inventions in 2005. Japan swiftly increases its advantage over third position, which is held by Germany.
France left Great Britain behind this year and occupied 4-th position. South Korea demonstrated unexpected progress and jumped to 6-th place from last year`s 8-th position. It is followed by Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and China. The part of other countries in total number of patents is less than 5%.
Russia has applied only for 425 patents this year, which is 100 less than previous result. Therefore, we didn`t get even to first twenty of the countries, which includes India, Canada and Australia despite of other European countries. Number of patents applied through Internet has increased sharply this year - 27% of total amount.
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