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Norway
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#32out of 113 countries
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Historical trend

1.3 K1.2 K1.0 K854693198020012021Norway · 2021: 946.00Norway

Analytical takeaways

  • Norway records 946.00 for Patent applications, residents in 2021, ranking #32 globally out of 113 countries.
  • Patent applications, residents increased from 716.00 in 1980 to 946.00 in 2021, a gain of 230.00.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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