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   I recently received the 1991 Annual Report of the European Patent Office.
It is filled with all kinds of useful statistics, some of which are listed
below.

Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization

(Note: the following country codes are used
AT  Austria         GB  ENGLAND        BE  Belgium         GR  Greece
CH  Switzerland     IT  Italy          DE  Germany         LI  Liechtenstein
DK  Denmark         LU  Luxembourg     ES  Spain           NL  Netherlands
FR  France          SE  Sweden

BREAKDOWN OF APPLICANTS BY RESIDENCE (OUT OF 55982 APPLICATIONS IN 1991)

UNITED STATES  26.8%
JAPAN          21.9%
OTHERS          3.7%
EUROPE         47.6%
    DE         18.7%
    FR          8.1%
    GB          5.2%
    CH          3.7%
    IT          3.6%
    NL          3.6%
 AT,BE,DK,ES    4.7%
 GR,LI,LU,SE

DESIGNATION RATE FOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
AT       45.47%
BE       51.89%
CH/LI    53.00%
DE       97.08%
DK       27.95%
ES       43.26%
FR       91.42%
GB       93.74%
GR       23.96%
IT       74.85%
LU       34.40%
NL       61.65%
SE       52.93%

PATENT APPLICATIONS BY INTERNATIONAL PATENT CLASSIFICATION

 1  Agriculture                            539   0.96%
 2  Foodstuffs and Tobacco                 756   1.35%
 3  Personal and Domestic Articles        1065   1.90%
 4  Health and Amusement                  2420   4.32%
 5  Medical,Dental Preparations           1469   2.62%
 6  Preparing and Mixing                  1972   3.52%
 7  Shaping I                             1302   2.33%
 8  Shaping II                            1965   3.51%
 9  Printing                              1028   1.84%
10  Transporting I                        2243   4.01%
11  Transporting II                       2120   3.79%
12  Inorganic Chemistry                   1268   2.27%
13  Organic Chemistry                     3865   6.90%
14  Macromolecular compounds              2637   4.71%
15  Dyes, oils, petroleum                 1438   2.57%
16  Fermentation,sugar,skins              1240   2.21%
17  Metallurgy                            1019   1.82%
18  Textiles                              1023   1.83%
19  Paper                                  333   0.59%
20  Building                              1538   2.75%
21  Mining                                 289   0.52%
22  Engines and pumps                     1458   2.60%
23  Engineering in general                1805   3.22%
24  Lighting and heating                  1038   1.85%
25  Weapons and blasting                   249   0.44%
26  Instruments I                         5457   9.75%
27  Instruments II                        3173   5.67%
28  Instruments III                       1878   3.35%
29  Nucleonics                             185   0.33%
30  Electric techniques                   5166   9.23%
31  Electronics                           3601   6.43%
32  Others                                 443   0.79%