Table 30 Yearly patent growth of AWE. The column “Country” contains the patents per year and corresponding country. The column "Patent growth" reflects the annual change of activities for all countries (based on [83])
Year | Country | Total | Patent growth | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | JP | CN | US | FR | KR | Annual change (%) | ||
1995 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
1996 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | − 50 |
1997 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | − 67 |
1998 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | − 50 |
1999 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 1.3 | 100 |
2000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2001 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | − 11 |
2002 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | − 88 |
2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
2004 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | − 7 |
2005 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 33 |
2006 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
2007 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | − 30 |
2008 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | − 62 |
2009 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | − 50 |
2010 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | − 64 |
2011 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 30 |
2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | − 63 |
2013 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | − 73 |
2014 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 22 |
2015 | 0.2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.8 | 11 | − 3 |
2016 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | − 43 |
2017 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | − 29 |
2018 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | − 49 |