Patent Applications (Residents) fell 21.9% to 993 in Kazakhstan in 2016

Patent applications of residents reached 993 in 2016 in Kazakhstan, according to World Bank. This is 21.9 % less than in the previous year.

Historically, patent applications of residents in Kazakhstan reached an all time high of 3,223 in 1993 and an all time low of 433 in 1992. When compared to Kazakhstan's main peers, patent applications of residents in China amounted to 1,204,981, 84.0 in Kyrgyzstan, 26,795 in Russia and 353 in Uzbekistan in 2016.

Kazakhstan has been ranked 38th within the group of 114 countries we follow in terms of patent applications of residents, 11 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.