20-57  Patents Application Accepted and Granted by Country (Region) (2008)
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	Number of				Number of
	Patents				Patents
Country (Territory)	Application	Inventions	Utility	Designs	Application	Inventions	Utility	Designs
	Accepted		Models		Granted		Models
					Granted
Total	111184	95259	1641	14284	59576	47116	1506	10954
Japan	38408	33264	362	4782	26370	21999	402	3969
Malaysia	129	43	16	70	62	11	16	35
Singapore	363	264	27	72	140	58	30	52
Thailand	27	14	3	10	19	4	6	9
Republic of Korea	9320	8022	111	1187	5605	4675	119	811
Cyprus	32	32
India	197	184	1	12	105	82		23
Monaco	19	10		9	5	5
South Africa	102	91	4	7	40	38		2
Germany	10145	8686	125	1334	4729	3598	132	999
Holland	3624	3261	19	344	1662	1449	8	205
United Kingdom	2233	1795	44	394	1000	698	49	253
Switzerland	2830	2337	14	479	1310	941	16	353
Denmark	765	631	9	125	308	206	4	98
Hungary	43	43			23	16		7
Austria	447	379	13	55	216	155	5	56
Belgium	561	535	3	23	215	184	3	28
France	3854	3170	31	653	1849	1388	37	424
Norway	216	187		29	110	80		30
Russia	107	85	10	12	55	35	14	6
Luxembourg	100	76	13	11	48	30	10	8
Liechtenstein	207	85		122	59	27	1	31
Spain	491	343	15	133	254	87	8	159
Czech	96	31	5	60
Poland	26	9		17	16	5	2	9
Ireland	168	143	2	23	48	29	1	18
Finland	1201	979	7	215	559	472	3	84
Italy	1761	1194	26	541	1003	512	31	460
Sweden	2068	1766	13	289	724	582	18	124
Israel	464	440	3	21	185	143	1	41
Brazil	122	74	7	41	39	31	2	6
United States	27656	24527	602	2527	11195	8661	430	2104
Canada	1016	896	12	108	443	350	23	70
New Zealand	141	101	5	35	55	25	5	25
Australia	864	609	26	229	451	272	29	150
Other	1381	953	113	315	674	268	101	305