PCT Statistics Meeting of International Authorities TwentySixth Session

PCT Statistics Meeting of International Authorities Twenty-Sixth Session Cairo February 13 and 14, 2019

Outline International Applications Filed Overall Trends and Forecasts Medium of Filing Languages National Phase Entries International Authorities International Search Supplementary International Search International Preliminary Examination

Medium of Filing 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Filing medium distribution for 2018: 67. 7% PDF, 29. 0% XML, 3. 3% paper Source: WIPO statistics database. January 2019 2017 2018

Publication Languages in 2018 Source: WIPO statistics database. January 2019

PCT National Phase Entries 630, 000 total national phase entries in 2017 (+2. 3%) 526, 000 non-resident national phase entries in 2017 (+2. 6%) 57. 3% of all non-resident patent applications in 2017 (56. 3% in 2016, 57. 6% in 2015) Source: WIPO statistics database. December 2018

International Authorities International Search Reports Distribution by International Authority Timeliness of Transmission to International Bureau Supplementary International Search Reports International Preliminary Examination Reports Distribution by International Authority Timeliness of Transmission to International Bureau

Distribution of ISRs established by ISA Data based on international filing year of application Data for 2018 are incomplete Source: WIPO statistics database. January 2019

Distribution of ISRs established by ISA (excluding IP 5 Offices) Data based on international filing year of application Data for 2018 are incomplete Source: WIPO statistics database. January 2019

Average Timeliness in transmitting ISRs to the IB from Date of Receipt of Search Copy Source: WIPO statistics database. March 2018 and January 2019. Excludes cases where Rule 42 time limit of 9 months from the priority date applies. Average timeliness in transmitting ISRs to the IB was 2. 95 months in 2017 84. 1% of PCT applications transmitted to IB within 3 months from date of receipt of search copy in 2017 – expected to rise to about 84. 8% in 2018

Timeliness in Transmitting ISRs to the IB measured from Date of Receipt of Search Copy by ISA for 2017 Provisional share transmitted within 3 months for 2018 98. 5 97. 9 100 99. 8 96. 0 98. 4 99. 1 95. 3 97. 8 93. 5 99. 1 93. 9 91. 6 74. 7 75. 2 79. 0 84. 8 53. 8 72. 1 92. 9 93. 0 70. 9 66. 9 Source: WIPO statistics database. March 2018 and January 2019. Excludes cases where Rule 42 time limit of 9 months from the priority date applies.

Timeliness in Transmitting ISRs to the IB measured from Priority Date by ISA for 2017 Provisional share transmitted within 9 months for 2018 100 98. 0 100 94. 7 99. 5 97. 0 100 96. 5 97. 7 92. 3 97. 7 87. 7 96. 1 87. 8 80. 4 74. 8 67. 9 23. 3 87. 8 80. 0 85. 0 87. 844. 8 81. 9 Source: WIPO statistics database. March 2018 and January 2019. Excludes cases where Rule 42 time limit of 3 months from date of receipt of search copy applies.

PCT A 1 Publication Percentage by ISA in 2018 Overall Percentage of A 1 Publications = 97. 2% (97. 4% in 2017) Source: WIPO statistics database. January 2019

Supplementary International Search Requests 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total 67 109 64 48 49 63 Austria 2 2 2 1 1 European Patent Office 30 61 40 44 40 54 Russian Federation 32 46 22 3 6 Singapore Sweden 1 3 3 3 Turkey Ukraine Source: WIPO statistics database. January 2019 1 2 1

International Preliminary Examination Reports by IPEA Total Australia Austria Brazil Canada Chile China Egypt European Patent Office Finland India Israel Japan Nordic Patent Institute Republic of Korea Russian Federation Singapore Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine United States of America Visegrad Patent Institute 2018 figures are incomplete Source: WIPO statistics database. January 2019 2014 13732 640 16 48 249 2015 15626 617 6 43 290 2016 14359 599 5 47 231 5 382 335 1 7638 104 40 2232 41 259 93 419 4 9053 104 6 79 2478 45 239 68 76 251 66 295 9075 60 25 81 2019 31 209 71 26 60 206 1709 1814 1227 2017 13257 548 9 50 213 8 316 1 8365 76 28 98 1945 32 162 51 106 47 134 4 1061 3 2018 12723 593 3 67 171 16 398 2 7731 66 41 66 2082 37 134 49 107 40 124 3 7 980 6 2018(%) 2017(%) 4. 66 0. 02 0. 53 1. 34 0. 13 3. 13 0. 02 60. 76 0. 52 0. 32 0. 52 16. 36 0. 29 1. 05 0. 39 0. 84 0. 31 0. 97 0. 02 0. 06 7. 70 0. 05 4. 13 0. 07 0. 38 1. 61 0. 06 2. 38 0. 01 63. 10 0. 57 0. 21 0. 74 14. 67 0. 24 1. 22 0. 38 0. 80 0. 35 1. 01 0. 00 0. 03 8. 00 0. 02

Average Timeliness in transmitting IPRPs (Chapter II) Average time in transmitting IPRPs fell to 27. 1 months in 2017 89. 3% of all IPRPs were transmitted to the IB within 28 months of priority date in 2017 (expected to fall to about 86. 2% for 2018) Source: WIPO statistics database. March 2018 and January 2019.

Timeliness in transmitting IPRPs by IPEA in 2017 Provisional share transmitted within 28 months for 2018 83. 3 100 99. 0 85. 7 100 88. 7 94. 6 75. 5 88. 7 86. 2 87. 9 77. 8 91. 0 84. 1 75. 7 76. 4 60. 6 44. 0 Timeliness calculated as time elapsed between priority date and date on which International Bureau received IPRP from IPEA Source: WIPO statistics database. March 2018 and January 2019. 50. 0 66. 7 17. 0

Further information: 2018 PCT Yearly Review The International Patent System WIPO Publication No. 901 E/2018 World Intellectual Property Indicators WIPO Publication No. 941 E/2018 WIPO IP Statistics Data Center http: //www. wipo. int/ipstats/en/