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Patents filed in Singapore by Country and Classification

Patents filed in Singapore by Country of Applicant

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Patents filed in Singapore by Country of Applicant

Data from Jan 2013 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:20 SGT

IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore)

Top 5 Patents Filing Countries in 2017

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PatentsfiledinSingaporebyCountryofApplicant.csv (698 rows, 14.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Applicant country Text	Patent filings Numeric	Rank Numeric
(Null)0.0% 201310.7% 201510.3% 201911.2% 202210.6%	(Null)0.0% China1.4% India1.4% Italy1.4% Japan1.4%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 384.7% 407.9% 414.4% 594.3%
2013	United States of America	3515	1
2013	Japan	1384	2
2013	Singapore	1143	3
2013	Germany	579	4
2013	Switzerland	554	5
2013	France	317	6
2013	United Kingdom	304	7
2013	China	192	8
2013	Republic of Korea	166	9
2013	Netherlands	139	10

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Applicant country	applicant_country	Text	-	-
Patent filings	patent_filings	Numeric	-	-
Rank	rank	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_3f9bb9554c64bca8274f5315b6db0f1f"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. (2018). Patents filed in Singapore by Country of Applicant (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3f9bb9554c64bca8274f5315b6db0f1f/view

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Created on

27 Aug 2018

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore)