Patent Applications (Residents) fell 56.5% to 10.0 in Montenegro in 2016

Patent applications of residents reached 10.0 in 2016 in Montenegro, according to World Bank. This is 56.5 % less than in the previous year.

Historically, patent applications of residents in Montenegro reached an all time high of 37.0 in 2012 and an all time low of 3.00 in 2008. When compared to Montenegro's main peers, patent applications of residents in Albania amounted to 21.0, 60.0 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 175 in Croatia and 192 in Serbia in 2016.

Montenegro has been ranked 97th within the group of 114 countries we follow in terms of patent applications of residents.

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.