This statistic shows the percent distribution of biotechnology patents filed in 2020, by country. During that year, Canada had a share of 1.9 percent of all filed biotechnology patents filed under the International Patent Classification (IPC) codes.
Distribution of biotechnology patents filed in 2020, by major country
IP5 patent families, percentages based on fractional counts.
The new list of International Patent Classification (IPC) codes to define biotechnology patents was used to extract these data. The definition is outlined in OECD (Forthcoming), "Revised Proposal for the Revision of the statistical Definitions of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology", DSTI/STP/BNCT(2016)2/FINAL.
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OECD. (November 8, 2023). Distribution of biotechnology patents filed in 2020, by major country [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/379996/share-of-select-countries-in-biotechnology-patents/
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