Section 2
Patents Granted
Eligible patents for ERA 2015 include Australian standard patents and their international equivalents, but not Australian innovation patents. ‘Other International’ includes all other countries not listed in the table below. Triadic patents are a series of corresponding patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Japan Patent Office (JPO), for the same invention by the same applicant or inventor. A total of 936 patents were submitted to ERA 2015. Over a third were submitted in the category of ‘Other International’. See Section 4 for a detailed breakdown.
Number of patents granted by country
Country or Type |
Patents Granted |
|---|---|
Australia |
165.0 |
United States |
280.0 |
Europe |
103.0 |
Japan |
67.0 |
Other International |
318.0 |
Triadic |
1.0 |
Total* |
936.0 |
* Note: Triadic patents count as three patents in the Total
Patents granted by country (%)
Patents granted by two-digit FoR code
