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Collection: Patents filed in Singapore by Country and Classification

Dataset: Patents filed in Singapore by Country of Applicant

Economy

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

Data explorer

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%
2013United States of America35151
2013Japan13842
2013Singapore11433
2013Germany5794
2013Switzerland5545
2013France3176
2013United Kingdom3047
2013China1928
2013Republic of Korea1669
2013Netherlands13910
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Sample OpenAPI query

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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

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. (2018). Patents filed in Singapore by Country of Applicant (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 17, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3f9bb9554c64bca8274f5315b6db0f1f/view

About this dataset

Contact

IPOS_Enquiry@ipos.gov.sg

Created on

27 Aug 2018

Licence

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

Agency

IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore)