PCT Yearly Review - WIPO

Section A
use of the pct system
A.8.4 Share of PCT national phase entries in
non-resident filings by office
Figure A.8.4 depicts the share of NPEs in total nonresident
filings for selected offices. It shows the use of the
PCT system, rather than the Paris route, by non-resident
applicants. Unlike Figure A.7.4, data presented here are
from the perspective of offices selected by applicants for
NPE rather than the applicant’s country of origin.
In 2011, the use of the PCT route for non-resident filings
varied widely from one office to another, with shares
ranging from 93% for the Eurasian Patent Organization
to 18.1% for Germany. The use of the PCT system
is, however, quite intense at offices of middle-income
countries. Eight of the top 11 offices – all of which have
shares of NPEs higher than 80% - are from the middleincome
category. By contrast, several offices from the
high-income category showed a relatively low share of
NPEs, such as Germany (18.1%), the United Kingdom
(23.3%) and the USPTO (31.8%).
Figure A.8.4: Share of PCT national phase entries in total non-resident filings by office, 2011
0.2 -1.3 -0.8 .. -0.7 -4.4 0.9 -1.5 1.3 -2.7 -0.9 -0.9 -2.9 -1.2 -1.3 -0.5 5.5 -6.1 0.9 -3.3 -5.0
93.0 92.4 91.4 90.5 90.3
Change from 2010
88.7 86.6 85.1 84.4 84.1 83.2 82.1
77.1 75.0 73.4
Share (%)
64.7 63.0
56.2
31.8
23.3
18.1
Eurasian Patent Organization
Israel
Indonesia
South Africa
Viet Nam
Brazil
Malaysia
New Zealand
India
Mexico
Canada
Russian Federation
Australia
Republic of Korea
Singapore
Japan
European Patent Office
China
United States of America
United Kingdom
Germany
Office
Note: The share is defined as non-resident PCT national phase entries initiated divided by non-resident patent applications filed. It includes the 20 offices that
received the most non-resident filings in 2011, that are members of the PCT system and that provided a breakdown by filing route to WIPO.
Source: WIPO Statistics Database, March 2013
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