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Appendix table 4. European patents validated in Finland by IPC-section and resident country of assignee, 2012

Resident country of assignee	Total of patents	A: Human necessities	B:Performing operations, transporting	C: Chemistry, metallurgy	D: Textiles, paper	E: Fixed constructions	F: Mechanical engineering	G:Physics	H:Electricity
Total of countries	5252	1096	835	1293	227	161	274	467	899
Finland	131	11	32	16	14	3	10	19	26
United States	1216	303	109	371	51	11	35	129	207
Germany	1055	143	275	226	77	51	92	86	105
Switzerland	389	135	54	106	3	7	23	34	27
Japan	375	52	51	96	17		7	28	124
France	316	50	51	94	7	7	17	34	56
Great Britain	234	62	42	59	5	7	12	24	23
Sweden	186	37	31	21	13	15	18	15	36
Italy	156	52	34	29	7	12	8	8	6
Netherlands	155	33	26	36	12	4	6	16	22
Republic of Korea	127	7	5	8		1		6	100
Denmark	122	35	14	41		12	3	91	8
Belgium	120	33	13	47	2	4	8	9	4
Austria	95	9	31	12	9	12	8	6	8
Canada	91	8	7	17	4	3	3	13	36
China	91	6	5	9	1	3	1	4	62
Spain	50	14	7	19	1	1	4	2	2
Norway	40	13	9	3		2	3	5	5
Total of other countries	303	93	39	83	4	6	16	20	42

Source: Patenting 2012. Statistics Finland

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Updated 31.10.2013