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Costa Rica
Patent applications, residents

Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office for exclusive rights for an invention--a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period, generally 20 years.

Global rank#90out of 113 countries
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Historical trend

63.049.335.521.88.0198020012021Costa Rica · 2021: 15.00Costa Rica

Analytical takeaways

  • Costa Rica records 15.00 for Patent applications, residents in 2021, ranking #90 globally out of 113 countries.
  • Patent applications, residents declined from 30.00 in 1980 to 15.00 in 2021, a decrease of 15.00.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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