Patent applications by nonresidents — all countries

Patent applications by nonresidents — Barbados

Patent applications by nonresidents in Barbados in 2019 — 31 filings. Ranked 88 in the world out of 126. Since 1980, the indicator has fallen by 29.5%.

2019 31 filings −24.39% vs 2016
World rank 88of 126
Period maximum 121 filings2003
Period minimum 31 filings2019

Trend over time

1980–2019 · applications

Patent applications by nonresidents — Barbados, 1980–2019050100150198019841988199219962000200420082012201620191980: 44 filings1981: 38 filings1984: 35 filings1999: 68 filings2001: 85 filings2002: 93 filings2003: 121 filings2004: 80 filings2005: 76 filings2006: 44 filings2007: 109 filings2008: 84 filings2009: 79 filings2010: 88 filings2011: 71 filings2012: 36 filings2013: 39 filings2014: 38 filings2015: 45 filings2016: 41 filings2019: 31 filings
Change over the period: −13 (−29.55%) Average annual rate: -0.89 %

Comparison, 2019

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Barbados

Barbados 31 filings
World 993,600 filings
Latin America & Caribbean 46,129 filings
High-income countries computed 603,055 filings
Patent applications by nonresidents — Barbados, by year Barbados All countries CSV XLSX
Year filings Change Change, %
2019 31
2016 41 −4 −8.89%
2015 45 +7 +18.42%
2014 38 −1 −2.56%
2013 39 +3 +8.33%
2012 36 −35 −49.3%
2011 71 −17 −19.32%
2010 88 +9 +11.39%
2009 79 −5 −5.95%
2008 84 −25 −22.94%
2007 109 +65 +147.73%
2006 44 −32 −42.11%
2005 76 −4 −5%
2004 80 −41 −33.88%
2003 121 +28 +30.11%
2002 93 +8 +9.41%
2001 85
1999 68
1984 35
1981 38 −6 −13.64%
1980 44

About the indicator

The number of patent applications filed in a country by nonresident applicants. The indicator measures not the inventive activity of the country but the value of its market: a patent has force only where it is granted, so foreign companies file where they intend to sell or where they fear copying. The ratio to applications by residents splits countries into those that invent and those where others file.

Important: A measure of the appeal of a market, not of innovativeness. An application is not a patent: some applications are rejected, and the share of rejections differs across countries.

Source: IP Statistics (WIPO), license CC BY 3.0 IGO.