Patent statistics: 2019 to 2020

These tables provide an overview of patent activity, based on the latest available statistics.

Requests for examination

Figure 1: Requests for examination of patents
	2013 to 2014	2014 to 2015	2015 to 2016	2016 to 2017	2017 to 2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Patent requests for examination	28,497	28,776	28,596	28,199	28,046	30,163	28,209

Figure 2: Patent disposals
	2013 to 2014	2014 to 2015	2015 to 2016	2016 to 2017	2017 to 2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Patent disposals	38,533	36,370	32,422	32,635	31,629	29,757	27,046

Figure 3: Average turnaround times for granting a patent
	2013 to 2014	2014 to 2015	2015 to 2016	2016 to 2017	2017 to 2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Patent turnaround time (in months)	42.7	40.3	38.8	36.7	33.6	32.0	31.1

Patent applications filed by language
Language	2013 to 2014	2014 to 2015	2015 to 2016	2016 to 2017	2017 to 2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
English	35,810	36,172	35,885	36,019	33,632	37,889	36,951
French	1,234	1,354	1,167	1,278	1,086	1,138	1,048
Total	37,044	37,526	37,052	36,019	34,718	39,027	37,999

Chemistry
Chemistry patent applications	2017-2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Filed	11,903	13,095	12,679
Requests for examination	9,263	10,014	9,153
Granted	7,160	7,219	6,552

Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering patent applications	2017-2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Filed	5,656	6,279	6,655
Requests for examination	4,798	5,005	5,293
Granted	4,483	3,994	3,523

Instruments
Instrument patent applications	2017-2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Filed	5,713	6,504	6,319
Requests for examination	4,769	5,430	4,737
Granted	4,341	4,076	3,479

Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering patent applications	2017-2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Filed	7,198	8,278	8,040
Requests for examination	5,900	6,434	5,856
Granted	5,264	5,023	4,815

Other fields
Patent applications from other fields	2017-2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Filed	4,248	4,871	4,306
Requests for examination	3,316	3,280	3,170
Granted	2,956	2,781	2,636

All disciplines
Patent applications from all disciplines	2017-2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Filed	34,718	39,027	37,999
Request for examination	28,046	30,163	28,209
Granted	24,204	23,093	21,005

Applications filed and patents granted to residents of Canada and foreign countries (fiscal year 2019 to 2020)
Province, territory or country	Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications filed	Non-PCT applications filed	Total applications filed	Total patents granted
Alberta	216	592	808	369
British Columbia	254	411	665	210
Manitoba	30	85	115	48
New Brunswick	10	32	42	16
Newfoundland and Labrador	4	10	14	2
Northwest Territories	0	0	0	0
Nova Scotia	22	42	64	25
Nunavut	0	0	0	1
Ontario	643	1,301	1,944	771
Prince Edward Island	4	4	8	6
Quebec	362	850	1,212	463
Saskatchewan	19	153	172	74
Yukon	1	6	7	0
Residents of Canada (total)	1,565	3,486	5,051	1,985
Foreign countries	26,564	6,384	32,948	19,020
Total	28,129	9,870	37,999	21,005

Patent applications filed and patents granted by origin as stated by the applicant (fiscal year 2019 to 2020)
Origin	Filed	Granted
Algeria	3	0
Andorra	2	0
Antigua and Barbuda	2	0
Argentina	6	7
Aruba	1	0
Australia	555	231
Austria	271	166
Azerbaijan	0	1
Bahamas	0	2
Bahrain	1	0
Barbados	28	27
Belarus	1	1
Belgium	323	153
Belize	1	0
Bermuda	10	11
Brazil	72	22
British Virgin Islands	12	17
Bulgaria	1	3
Canada	5,051	1,995
Cayman Islands	182	21
Chile	20	13
China	1,494	549
Colombia	2	2
Costa Rica	4	3
Croatia	3	2
Cuba	3	10
Cyprus	14	6
Czech Republic	28	9
Denmark	292	185
Dominican Republic	1	0
Ecuador	0	2
Egypt	1	0
El Salvador	0	0
Estonia	3	2
Faroe Islands	1	1
Finland	301	186
France	1,589	1,061
Germany	2,086	1,370
Gibraltar	1	0
Greece	19	15
Guinea	1	0
Hungary	25	9
Iceland	9	9
India	194	67
Indonesia	1	0
Iran	6	1
Ireland	185	108
Isle of Man	9	0
Israel	418	172
Italy	604	311
Jamaica	0	2
Japan	1,610	1,346
Jersey	1	1
Jordan	0	1
Kazakhstan	1	0
Kuwait	0	1
Latvia	4	2
Liechtenstein	59	19
Lithuania	4	0
Luxembourg	123	57
Malaysia	19	6
Malta	8	2
Mauritius	3	0
Mexico	40	26
Monaco	2	1
Morocco	1	0
Nepal	1	0
Netherlands	527	326
Netherlands Antilles	0	1
New Zealand	80	52
Niger	0	1
Norway	250	130
Pakistan	4	0
Panama	1	0
Philippines	0	1
Poland	42	0
Portugal	39	11
Qatar	0	7
Republic of Korea	396	284
Romania	4	0
Russia	76	43
Saint Kitts and Nevis	3	0
Saint Vincent and The Grenadines	0	3
Samoa	1	0
San Marino	1	1
Saudi Arabia	181	38
Senegal	0	1
Serbia	1	0
Seychelles	0	1
Singapore	72	42
Slovakia	9	4
Slovenia	9	6
South Africa	41	31
Spain	204	109
Sweden	505	300
Switzerland	1,056	732
Taiwan	49	73
Thailand	10	1
Hong Kong	5	9
Trinidad and Tobago	1	0
Tunisia	0	2
Turkey	17	13
Turks and Caicos Islands	2	0
Ukraine	2	1
United Arab Emirates	7	1
United Kingdom	1,274	648
United States of America	17,410	9,919
Uruguay	8	0
Totals	37,999	21,005

Top 10 patent applicants (fiscal year 2019 to 2020)
Applicant	Number of applications filed
GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.	281
QUALCOMM INCORPORATED	232
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.	195
THE BOEING COMPANY	191
HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.	181
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.	179
SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY	176
CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC	169
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY	147
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED	142

Top 10 patentees (fiscal year 2019 to 2020)
Patentee	Number of patents granted
HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.	448
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY	183
THE BOEING COMPANY	129
SNECMA	111
NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.	101
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.	94
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY	93
QUALCOMM INCORPORATED	91
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.	85
BLACKBERRY LIMITED	70

Final actions
Operational statistics	2013 to 2014	2014 to 2015	2015 to 2016	2016 to 2017	2017 to 2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Referrals	34	28	65	91	75	101	71
Disposals	40	24	19	33	41	46	56

Industrial designs
Operational statistics	2013 to 2014	2014 to 2015	2015 to 2016	2016 to 2017	2017 to 2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Referrals	2	6	1	4	0	0	5
Disposals	0	2	6	5	0	0	0

Re-examination: section 48.1
Operational statistics	2013 to 2014	2014 to 2015	2015 to 2016	2016 to 2017	2017 to 2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Filings	6	4	12	2	15	11	11
Disposals	7	2	3	9	7	4	11

Candidates for agent examinations
Operational statistics	2013 to 2014	2014 to 2015	2015 to 2016	2016 to 2017	2017 to 2018	2018 to 2019	2019 to 2020
Patents	218	439	471	433	440	406	408
Trademarks	69	71	89	111	142	120	110