Patent applications by nonresidents — all countries

Patent applications by nonresidents — Serbia

Patent applications by nonresidents in Serbia in 2021 — 18 filings. Ranked 87 in the world out of 121. Since 2004, the indicator has fallen by 97.4%.

2021 18 filings +125% vs 2020
World rank 87of 121
Period maximum 694 filings2004
Period minimum 8 filings2020

Trend over time

2004–2021 · applications

Patent applications by nonresidents — Serbia, 2004–2021020040060080020042006200820102012201420162018202020212004: 694 filings2005: 609 filings2006: 273 filings2007: 121 filings2008: 237 filings2009: 40 filings2010: 39 filings2011: 49 filings2012: 32 filings2013: 20 filings2014: 10 filings2015: 13 filings2016: 21 filings2017: 13 filings2018: 11 filings2019: 9 filings2020: 8 filings2021: 18 filings
Change over the period: −676 (−97.41%) Average annual rate: -19.33 %

Comparison, 2021

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

Serbia 18 filings
World 1.02M filings
Europe & Central Asia computed 49,325 filings
Southern Europe computed 2,290 filings
Upper-middle-income countries computed 233,639 filings
Patent applications by nonresidents — Serbia, by year Serbia All countries CSV XLSX
Year filings Change Change, %
2021 18 +10 +125%
2020 8 −1 −11.11%
2019 9 −2 −18.18%
2018 11 −2 −15.38%
2017 13 −8 −38.1%
2016 21 +8 +61.54%
2015 13 +3 +30%
2014 10 −10 −50%
2013 20 −12 −37.5%
2012 32 −17 −34.69%
2011 49 +10 +25.64%
2010 39 −1 −2.5%
2009 40 −197 −83.12%
2008 237 +116 +95.87%
2007 121 −152 −55.68%
2006 273 −336 −55.17%
2005 609 −85 −12.25%
2004 694

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.