Four Office Statistics Report 2009

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Table of contents

The following links take you to specific chapters in the report.

Preface

1. Definition of terms

2. The Four Offices

3. Worldwide patenting activity

4. Patent activity at the Four Offices

5. The Four Offices and the Patent Cooperation Treaty

6. Other work

Annex 1: Definitions for office expenditures

Annex 2: Definitions for statistics on procedures

Acronyms

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Glossary of patent related terms

Corrections

Corrections of some errors in this edition

Full report

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