Companies and inventors from around the world filed 199,264 patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) last year, according to the Patent Index 2024.
The U.S. maintained its position as the top country of origin for European patent applications, followed by Germany, Japan, China, and the Republic of Korea. U.S. innovators filed 47,787 applications, accounting for 24% of the total at the EPO in 2024.
Out of all global applicants, six of the top 20 businesses with most applications at the EPO are U.S.-based. They include: semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm (with 3,015 patent applications, ranking 4th globally), aerospace and defense company RTX (2,061 applications), Alphabet (1,171), Microsoft (1,131), InterDigital (863), and Apple (806).
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