"Demand for International Preliminary Examintation (IPE), by International Preliminary Examining Authorities (IPEAs)",,,,,
"Source: WIPO Statistics Database, March 2010",,,,,
Note: 2009 data are provisional and incomplete. Counts are based on the date of filing of the Chapter II demand.,,,,,
IPEA_Name,IPEA_Code,Year,Quarter,Number of demand by IPEA,
Australia,AU,2000,1,335,2.117
Australia,AU,2000,2,373,2.2007
Australia,AU,2000,3,294,1.8384
Australia,AU,2000,4,471,2.4737
Australia,AU,2001,1,438,2.3137
Australia,AU,2001,2,526,2.6308
Australia,AU,2001,3,391,1.9595
Australia,AU,2001,4,484,2.1788
Australia,AU,2002,1,516,2.4685
Australia,AU,2002,2,544,2.5399
Australia,AU,2002,3,355,1.9058
Australia,AU,2002,4,440,2.2199
Australia,AU,2003,1,473,2.6722
Australia,AU,2003,2,411,2.4634
Australia,AU,2003,3,369,2.4795
Australia,AU,2003,4,440,2.8065
Australia,AU,2004,1,433,3.1084
Australia,AU,2004,2,359,2.759
Australia,AU,2004,3,219,2.7502
Australia,AU,2004,4,238,3.2814
Australia,AU,2005,1,263,3.84
Australia,AU,2005,2,281,4.0437
Australia,AU,2005,3,268,4.3331
Australia,AU,2005,4,223,3.8244
Australia,AU,2006,1,272,4.6227
Australia,AU,2006,2,241,4.5199
Australia,AU,2006,3,230,4.4904
Australia,AU,2006,4,227,4.3329
Australia,AU,2007,1,235,4.5419
Australia,AU,2007,2,260,5.199
Australia,AU,2007,3,202,4.3685
Australia,AU,2007,4,175,3.761
Australia,AU,2008,1,202,4.4347
Australia,AU,2008,2,243,5.3371
Australia,AU,2008,3,219,4.9402
Australia,AU,2008,4,200,4.3985
Australia,AU,2009,1,193,4.8553
Australia,AU,2009,2,194,5.1747
Australia,AU,2009,3,212,5.8082
Australia,AU,2009,4,185,5.0477
Austria,AT,2000,1,103,0.6509
Austria,AT,2000,2,89,0.5251
Austria,AT,2000,3,56,0.3502
Austria,AT,2000,4,66,0.3466
Austria,AT,2001,1,51,0.2694
Austria,AT,2001,2,56,0.2801
Austria,AT,2001,3,57,0.2857
Austria,AT,2001,4,47,0.2116
Austria,AT,2002,1,56,0.2679
Austria,AT,2002,2,65,0.3035
Austria,AT,2002,3,50,0.2684
Austria,AT,2002,4,86,0.4339
Austria,AT,2003,1,78,0.4407
Austria,AT,2003,2,46,0.2757
Austria,AT,2003,3,51,0.3427
Austria,AT,2003,4,64,0.4082
Austria,AT,2004,1,37,0.2656
Austria,AT,2004,2,29,0.2229
Austria,AT,2004,3,42,0.5274
Austria,AT,2004,4,42,0.5791
Austria,AT,2005,1,50,0.73
Austria,AT,2005,2,51,0.7339
Austria,AT,2005,3,35,0.5659
Austria,AT,2005,4,24,0.4116
Austria,AT,2006,1,28,0.4759
Austria,AT,2006,2,26,0.4876
Austria,AT,2006,3,27,0.5271
Austria,AT,2006,4,33,0.6299
Austria,AT,2007,1,33,0.6378
Austria,AT,2007,2,22,0.4399
Austria,AT,2007,3,23,0.4974
Austria,AT,2007,4,22,0.4728
Austria,AT,2008,1,29,0.6367
Austria,AT,2008,2,30,0.6589
Austria,AT,2008,3,21,0.4737
Austria,AT,2008,4,23,0.5058
Austria,AT,2009,1,27,0.6792
Austria,AT,2009,2,7,0.1867
Austria,AT,2009,3,10,0.274
Austria,AT,2009,4,24,0.6548
Canada,CA,2004,1,1,0.0072
Canada,CA,2005,1,19,0.2774
Canada,CA,2005,2,80,1.1512
Canada,CA,2005,3,108,1.7462
Canada,CA,2005,4,121,2.0751
Canada,CA,2006,1,101,1.7165
Canada,CA,2006,2,128,2.4006
Canada,CA,2006,3,80,1.5619
Canada,CA,2006,4,122,2.3287
Canada,CA,2007,1,121,2.3386
Canada,CA,2007,2,91,1.8196
Canada,CA,2007,3,102,2.2059
Canada,CA,2007,4,99,2.1277
Canada,CA,2008,1,130,2.854
Canada,CA,2008,2,120,2.6356
Canada,CA,2008,3,122,2.7521
Canada,CA,2008,4,107,2.3532
Canada,CA,2009,1,82,2.0629
Canada,CA,2009,2,79,2.1072
Canada,CA,2009,3,73,2
Canada,CA,2009,4,50,1.3643
China,CN,2000,1,53,0.3349
China,CN,2000,2,59,0.3481
China,CN,2000,3,79,0.494
China,CN,2000,4,75,0.3939
China,CN,2001,1,165,0.8716
China,CN,2001,2,172,0.8603
China,CN,2001,3,313,1.5686
China,CN,2001,4,129,0.5807
China,CN,2002,1,135,0.6458
China,CN,2002,2,178,0.8311
China,CN,2002,3,192,1.0308
China,CN,2002,4,170,0.8577
China,CN,2003,1,143,0.8079
China,CN,2003,2,173,1.0369
China,CN,2003,3,173,1.1625
China,CN,2003,4,181,1.1545
China,CN,2004,1,121,0.8686
China,CN,2004,2,145,1.1144
China,CN,2004,3,110,1.3814
China,CN,2004,4,125,1.7234
China,CN,2005,1,128,1.8689
China,CN,2005,2,110,1.583
China,CN,2005,3,98,1.5845
China,CN,2005,4,100,1.715
China,CN,2006,1,90,1.5296
China,CN,2006,2,86,1.6129
China,CN,2006,3,91,1.7766
China,CN,2006,4,97,1.8515
China,CN,2007,1,89,1.7201
China,CN,2007,2,86,1.7197
China,CN,2007,3,94,2.0329
China,CN,2007,4,116,2.493
China,CN,2008,1,96,2.1076
China,CN,2008,2,133,2.9212
China,CN,2008,3,106,2.3912
China,CN,2008,4,84,1.8474
China,CN,2009,1,88,2.2138
China,CN,2009,2,83,2.2139
China,CN,2009,3,67,1.8356
China,CN,2009,4,64,1.7462
European Patent Office,EP,2000,1,8940,56.4965
European Patent Office,EP,2000,2,9565,56.434
European Patent Office,EP,2000,3,9384,58.6793
European Patent Office,EP,2000,4,10968,57.605
European Patent Office,EP,2001,1,10767,56.875
European Patent Office,EP,2001,2,11251,56.2719
European Patent Office,EP,2001,3,11304,56.6503
European Patent Office,EP,2001,4,12608,56.757
European Patent Office,EP,2002,1,11622,55.5997
European Patent Office,EP,2002,2,10647,49.7105
European Patent Office,EP,2002,3,9233,49.5678
European Patent Office,EP,2002,4,9494,47.8987
European Patent Office,EP,2003,1,8602,48.5961
European Patent Office,EP,2003,2,8025,48.1
European Patent Office,EP,2003,3,7211,48.4545
European Patent Office,EP,2003,4,7595,48.4437
European Patent Office,EP,2004,1,6961,49.9713
European Patent Office,EP,2004,2,6678,51.3219
European Patent Office,EP,2004,3,4129,51.8523
European Patent Office,EP,2004,4,3874,53.4124
European Patent Office,EP,2005,1,3705,54.0955
European Patent Office,EP,2005,2,3653,52.5687
European Patent Office,EP,2005,3,3376,54.5837
European Patent Office,EP,2005,4,3144,53.9187
European Patent Office,EP,2006,1,3188,54.1808
European Patent Office,EP,2006,2,2877,53.9572
European Patent Office,EP,2006,3,2830,55.2519
European Patent Office,EP,2006,4,2716,51.842
European Patent Office,EP,2007,1,2768,53.4983
European Patent Office,EP,2007,2,2792,55.8288
European Patent Office,EP,2007,3,2573,55.6445
European Patent Office,EP,2007,4,2475,53.1915
European Patent Office,EP,2008,1,2537,55.697
European Patent Office,EP,2008,2,2498,54.8649
European Patent Office,EP,2008,3,2370,53.4627
European Patent Office,EP,2008,4,2467,54.2556
European Patent Office,EP,2009,1,2194,55.195
European Patent Office,EP,2009,2,2118,56.4951
European Patent Office,EP,2009,3,2096,57.4247
European Patent Office,EP,2009,4,2134,58.2265
Finland,FI,2005,4,4,0.0686
Finland,FI,2006,1,28,0.4759
Finland,FI,2006,2,26,0.4876
Finland,FI,2006,3,41,0.8005
Finland,FI,2006,4,30,0.5726
Finland,FI,2007,1,38,0.7344
Finland,FI,2007,2,33,0.6599
Finland,FI,2007,3,41,0.8867
Finland,FI,2007,4,39,0.8382
Finland,FI,2008,1,45,0.9879
Finland,FI,2008,2,45,0.9884
Finland,FI,2008,3,34,0.767
Finland,FI,2008,4,30,0.6598
Finland,FI,2009,1,31,0.7799
Finland,FI,2009,2,35,0.9336
Finland,FI,2009,3,31,0.8493
Finland,FI,2009,4,47,1.2824
Japan,JP,2000,1,1165,7.3622
Japan,JP,2000,2,1093,6.4488
Japan,JP,2000,3,1069,6.6846
Japan,JP,2000,4,1281,6.7279
Japan,JP,2001,1,1430,7.5537
Japan,JP,2001,2,1368,6.8421
Japan,JP,2001,3,1588,7.9583
Japan,JP,2001,4,1753,7.8914
Japan,JP,2002,1,1583,7.5731
Japan,JP,2002,2,1791,8.3621
Japan,JP,2002,3,1754,9.4164
Japan,JP,2002,4,1944,9.8078
Japan,JP,2003,1,1729,9.7678
Japan,JP,2003,2,1670,10.0096
Japan,JP,2003,3,1615,10.852
Japan,JP,2003,4,1796,11.4555
Japan,JP,2004,1,1483,10.6461
Japan,JP,2004,2,1170,8.9917
Japan,JP,2004,3,815,10.2348
Japan,JP,2004,4,740,10.2027
Japan,JP,2005,1,631,9.213
Japan,JP,2005,2,620,8.9221
Japan,JP,2005,3,651,10.5255
Japan,JP,2005,4,624,10.7014
Japan,JP,2006,1,630,10.707
Japan,JP,2006,2,615,11.5341
Japan,JP,2006,3,607,11.8508
Japan,JP,2006,4,728,13.8958
Japan,JP,2007,1,631,12.1956
Japan,JP,2007,2,607,12.1376
Japan,JP,2007,3,626,13.5381
Japan,JP,2007,4,692,14.8721
Japan,JP,2008,1,538,11.8112
Japan,JP,2008,2,508,11.1575
Japan,JP,2008,3,511,11.5272
Japan,JP,2008,4,566,12.4478
Japan,JP,2009,1,534,13.434
Japan,JP,2009,2,548,14.6172
Japan,JP,2009,3,527,14.4384
Japan,JP,2009,4,536,14.6248
Nordic Patent Institute,XN,2009,1,6,0.1509
Nordic Patent Institute,XN,2009,2,6,0.16
Nordic Patent Institute,XN,2009,3,2,0.0548
Nordic Patent Institute,XN,2009,4,11,0.3001
Republic of Korea,KR,2000,1,50,0.316
Republic of Korea,KR,2000,2,99,0.5841
Republic of Korea,KR,2000,3,113,0.7066
Republic of Korea,KR,2000,4,136,0.7143
Republic of Korea,KR,2001,1,183,0.9667
Republic of Korea,KR,2001,2,206,1.0303
Republic of Korea,KR,2001,3,274,1.3732
Republic of Korea,KR,2001,4,307,1.382
Republic of Korea,KR,2002,1,356,1.7031
Republic of Korea,KR,2002,2,336,1.5688
Republic of Korea,KR,2002,3,317,1.7018
Republic of Korea,KR,2002,4,358,1.8062
Republic of Korea,KR,2003,1,297,1.6779
Republic of Korea,KR,2003,2,269,1.6123
Republic of Korea,KR,2003,3,256,1.7202
Republic of Korea,KR,2003,4,257,1.6392
Republic of Korea,KR,2004,1,327,2.3475
Republic of Korea,KR,2004,2,226,1.7369
Republic of Korea,KR,2004,3,195,2.4488
Republic of Korea,KR,2004,4,184,2.5369
Republic of Korea,KR,2005,1,152,2.2193
Republic of Korea,KR,2005,2,197,2.8349
Republic of Korea,KR,2005,3,144,2.3282
Republic of Korea,KR,2005,4,159,2.7268
Republic of Korea,KR,2006,1,151,2.5663
Republic of Korea,KR,2006,2,155,2.907
Republic of Korea,KR,2006,3,147,2.87
Republic of Korea,KR,2006,4,145,2.7677
Republic of Korea,KR,2007,1,132,2.5512
Republic of Korea,KR,2007,2,142,2.8394
Republic of Korea,KR,2007,3,99,2.141
Republic of Korea,KR,2007,4,138,2.9658
Republic of Korea,KR,2008,1,103,2.2613
Republic of Korea,KR,2008,2,71,1.5594
Republic of Korea,KR,2008,3,103,2.3235
Republic of Korea,KR,2008,4,84,1.8474
Republic of Korea,KR,2009,1,83,2.0881
Republic of Korea,KR,2009,2,85,2.2673
Republic of Korea,KR,2009,3,97,2.6575
Republic of Korea,KR,2009,4,79,2.1555
Russian Federation,RU,2000,1,77,0.4866
Russian Federation,RU,2000,2,99,0.5841
Russian Federation,RU,2000,3,73,0.4565
Russian Federation,RU,2000,4,93,0.4884
Russian Federation,RU,2001,1,98,0.5177
Russian Federation,RU,2001,2,104,0.5202
Russian Federation,RU,2001,3,65,0.3257
Russian Federation,RU,2001,4,121,0.5447
Russian Federation,RU,2002,1,90,0.4306
Russian Federation,RU,2002,2,102,0.4762
Russian Federation,RU,2002,3,90,0.4832
Russian Federation,RU,2002,4,97,0.4894
Russian Federation,RU,2003,1,56,0.3164
Russian Federation,RU,2003,2,64,0.3836
Russian Federation,RU,2003,3,40,0.2688
Russian Federation,RU,2003,4,50,0.3189
Russian Federation,RU,2004,1,30,0.2154
Russian Federation,RU,2004,2,58,0.4457
Russian Federation,RU,2004,3,24,0.3014
Russian Federation,RU,2004,4,50,0.6894
Russian Federation,RU,2005,1,48,0.7008
Russian Federation,RU,2005,2,29,0.4173
Russian Federation,RU,2005,3,34,0.5497
Russian Federation,RU,2005,4,27,0.463
Russian Federation,RU,2006,1,35,0.5948
Russian Federation,RU,2006,2,27,0.5064
Russian Federation,RU,2006,3,13,0.2538
Russian Federation,RU,2006,4,39,0.7444
Russian Federation,RU,2007,1,38,0.7344
Russian Federation,RU,2007,2,29,0.5799
Russian Federation,RU,2007,3,25,0.5407
Russian Federation,RU,2007,4,29,0.6233
Russian Federation,RU,2008,1,21,0.461
Russian Federation,RU,2008,2,26,0.5711
Russian Federation,RU,2008,3,32,0.7219
Russian Federation,RU,2008,4,18,0.3959
Russian Federation,RU,2009,1,14,0.3522
Russian Federation,RU,2009,2,16,0.4268
Russian Federation,RU,2009,3,21,0.5753
Russian Federation,RU,2009,4,15,0.4093
Spain,ES,2003,4,8,0.051
Spain,ES,2004,1,28,0.201
Spain,ES,2004,2,35,0.269
Spain,ES,2004,3,32,0.4019
Spain,ES,2004,4,34,0.4688
Spain,ES,2005,1,31,0.4526
Spain,ES,2005,2,38,0.5468
Spain,ES,2005,3,31,0.5012
Spain,ES,2005,4,28,0.4802
Spain,ES,2006,1,34,0.5778
Spain,ES,2006,2,29,0.5439
Spain,ES,2006,3,26,0.5076
Spain,ES,2006,4,22,0.4199
Spain,ES,2007,1,30,0.5798
Spain,ES,2007,2,29,0.5799
Spain,ES,2007,3,38,0.8218
Spain,ES,2007,4,28,0.6018
Spain,ES,2008,1,23,0.5049
Spain,ES,2008,2,26,0.5711
Spain,ES,2008,3,32,0.7219
Spain,ES,2008,4,26,0.5718
Spain,ES,2009,1,44,1.1069
Spain,ES,2009,2,35,0.9336
Spain,ES,2009,3,27,0.7397
Spain,ES,2009,4,36,0.9823
Sweden,SE,2000,1,736,4.6512
Sweden,SE,2000,2,941,5.5519
Sweden,SE,2000,3,744,4.6523
Sweden,SE,2000,4,1017,5.3414
Sweden,SE,2001,1,731,3.8614
Sweden,SE,2001,2,985,4.9265
Sweden,SE,2001,3,904,4.5304
Sweden,SE,2001,4,951,4.2811
Sweden,SE,2002,1,759,3.6311
Sweden,SE,2002,2,1065,4.9725
Sweden,SE,2002,3,725,3.8922
Sweden,SE,2002,4,913,4.6062
Sweden,SE,2003,1,620,3.5026
Sweden,SE,2003,2,762,4.5673
Sweden,SE,2003,3,589,3.9578
Sweden,SE,2003,4,646,4.1204
Sweden,SE,2004,1,510,3.6612
Sweden,SE,2004,2,552,4.2422
Sweden,SE,2004,3,283,3.5539
Sweden,SE,2004,4,272,3.7502
Sweden,SE,2005,1,215,3.1391
Sweden,SE,2005,2,295,4.2452
Sweden,SE,2005,3,228,3.6863
Sweden,SE,2005,4,248,4.2531
Sweden,SE,2006,1,165,2.8042
Sweden,SE,2006,2,189,3.5446
Sweden,SE,2006,3,179,3.4947
Sweden,SE,2006,4,153,2.9204
Sweden,SE,2007,1,177,3.421
Sweden,SE,2007,2,159,3.1794
Sweden,SE,2007,3,174,3.763
Sweden,SE,2007,4,156,3.3527
Sweden,SE,2008,1,159,3.4907
Sweden,SE,2008,2,181,3.9754
Sweden,SE,2008,3,137,3.0905
Sweden,SE,2008,4,143,3.1449
Sweden,SE,2009,1,129,3.2453
Sweden,SE,2009,2,104,2.7741
Sweden,SE,2009,3,103,2.8219
Sweden,SE,2009,4,127,3.4652
United States of America,US,2000,1,4365,27.5847
United States of America,US,2000,2,4631,27.3231
United States of America,US,2000,3,4180,26.1381
United States of America,US,2000,4,4933,25.9086
United States of America,US,2001,1,5068,26.7709
United States of America,US,2001,2,5326,26.638
United States of America,US,2001,3,5057,25.3433
United States of America,US,2001,4,5814,26.1727
United States of America,US,2002,1,5786,27.6802
United States of America,US,2002,2,6690,31.2354
United States of America,US,2002,3,5911,31.7335
United States of America,US,2002,4,6319,31.8803
United States of America,US,2003,1,5703,32.2185
United States of America,US,2003,2,5264,31.5512
United States of America,US,2003,3,4577,30.7553
United States of America,US,2003,4,4641,29.602
United States of America,US,2004,1,3999,28.7078
United States of America,US,2004,2,3760,28.8964
United States of America,US,2004,3,2114,26.5478
United States of America,US,2004,4,1694,23.3559
United States of America,US,2005,1,1607,23.4633
United States of America,US,2005,2,1595,22.9529
United States of America,US,2005,3,1212,19.5958
United States of America,US,2005,4,1128,19.3449
United States of America,US,2006,1,1162,19.7485
United States of America,US,2006,2,933,17.4981
United States of America,US,2006,3,851,16.6146
United States of America,US,2006,4,927,17.6942
United States of America,US,2007,1,882,17.0468
United States of America,US,2007,2,751,15.017
United States of America,US,2007,3,627,13.5597
United States of America,US,2007,4,684,14.7002
United States of America,US,2008,1,672,14.753
United States of America,US,2008,2,672,14.7595
United States of America,US,2008,3,746,16.8283
United States of America,US,2008,4,799,17.572
United States of America,US,2009,1,550,13.8365
United States of America,US,2009,2,439,11.7098
United States of America,US,2009,3,383,10.4932
United States of America,US,2009,4,356,9.7135