Patent Applications (Non-Residents) rose 200% to 6.00 in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2016

Patent applications of non-residents reached 6.00 in 2016 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to World Bank. This is 200 % more than in the previous year.

Historically, patent applications of non-residents in Bosnia and Herzegovina reached an all time high of 346 in 2004 and an all time low of 2.00 in 2014. When compared to Bosnia and Herzegovina's main peers, patent applications of non-residents in Croatia amounted to 13.0, 973 in Italy and 21.0 in Serbia in 2016.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has been ranked 103rd within the group of 116 countries we follow in terms of patent applications of non-residents, 39 places behind the position seen 10 years ago.

Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office for exclusive rights for an invention, a product or a process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem.