PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty, brevetti d'invenzione industriale internazionali

n. 138 paesi aderenti all'accordo in data 1 maggio 2008
Contracting States and Two-letter Codes (139 on 1 May 2007)

1	AE	United Arab Emirates
2	AG	Antigua and Barbuda
3	AL	Albania
4	AM	Armenia (EA)
5	AO	Angola
6	AT	Austria (EP)
7	AU	Australia
8	AZ	Azerbaijan (EA)
9	BA	Bosnia and Herzegovina
10	BB	Barbados
11	BE	Belgium (EP)
12	BF	Burkina Faso (OA)
13	BG	Bulgaria (EP)
14	BH	Bahrain
15	BJ	Benin (OA)
16	BR	Brazil
17	BY	Belarus (EA)
18	BZ	Belize
19	BW	Botswana
20	CA	Canada
21	CF	Central African Republic (OA)
22	CG	Congo (OA)
23	CH	Switzerland (EP
24	CI	Côte d'Ivoire (OA)
25	CM	Cameroon (OA)
26	CN	China
27	CO	Colombia
28	CR	Costa Rica
29	CU	Cuba
30	CY	Cyprus (EP)
31	CZ	Czech Republic (EP)
32	DE	Germany (EP)
33	DK	Denmark (EP)
34	DM	Dominica
35	DO	Dominican Republic
36	DZ	Algeria
37	EC	Ecuador
38	EG	Egypt
39	EE	Estonia (EP)
40	ES	Spain (EP)
41	FI	Finland (EP)
42	FR	France (EP)
43	GA	Gabon
44	GB	United Kingdom (EP)

45	GD	Grenada
46	GE	Georgia
47	GH	Ghana (AP)
48	GM	Gambia (AP)
49	GN	Guinea (OA)
50	GQ	Equatorial Guinea (OA)
51	GR	Greece (EP)
52	GT	Guatemala
53	GW	Guinea-Bissau (OA)
54	HN	Honduras
55	HR	Croatia
56	HU	Hungary (EP)
57	ID	Indonesia
58	IE	Ireland (EP)
59	IL	Israel
60	IN	India
61	IS	Iceland
62	IT	Italy (EP)
63	JP	Japan
64	KE	Kenya (AP)
65	KG	Kyrgyzstan (EA)
66	KM	Comoros
67	KN	Saint Kitts and Nevis
68	KP	Democratic People's Republic of Korea
69	KR	Republic of Korea
70	KZ	Kazakhstan (EA)
71	LA	Lao People's Democratic Republic
72	LC	Saint Lucia
73	LI	Liechtenstein (EP)
74	LK	Sri Lanka
75	LR	Liberia
76	LS	Lesotho (AP)
77	LT	Lithuania
78	LU	Luxembourg (EP)
79	LV	Latvia
80	LY	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
81	MA	Morocco
82	MC	Monaco (EP)
83	MD	Republic of Moldova (EA)
84	MG	Madagascar
85	MK	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
86	ML	Mali (OA)
87	MN	Mongolia
88	MR	Mauritania (OA)
89	MT	Malta
90	MW	Malawi (AP)
91	MX	Mexico

92	MY	Malaysia
93	MZ	Mozambique (AP)
94	NA	Namibia
95	NE	Niger (OA)
96	NG	Nigeria (from 8 May 2005)
97	NI	Nicaragua
98	NL	Netherlands (EP)
99	NO	Norway
100	NZ	New Zealand
101	OM	Oman
102	PG	Papua New Guinea
103	PH	Philippines
104	PL	Poland
105	PT	Portugal (EP)
106	RO	Romania (EP)
107	RS	Serbia
108	RU	Russian Federation (EA)
109	SC	Seychelles
110	SD	Sudan (AP)
111	SE	Sweden (EP)
112	SG	Singapore
113	SI	Slovenia (EP)
114	SK	Slovakia (EP)
115	SL	Sierra leone (AP)
116	SM	San Marino
117	SN	Senegal (OA)
118	ST	Sao Tome and Principe
119	SV	El Salvador
120	SY	Syrian Arab Republic
121	SZ	Swaziland (AP)
122	TD	Chad (OA)
123	TG	Togo (OA)
124	TJ	Tajikistan (EA)
125	TM	Turkmenistan (EA)
126	TN	Tunisia
127	TR	Turkey (EP)
128	TT	Trinidad and Tabago
129	TZ	United Republic of Tanzania (AP)
130	UA	Ukraine
131	UG	Uganda (AP)
132	US	United States of America
133	UZ	Uzbekistan
134	VC	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
135	VN	Viet Nam
136	YU	Serbia and Montenegro
137	ZA	South Africa
138	ZM	Zambia (AP)
139	ZW	Zimbabwe (AP)

PCT Statistics - 1 January to 31 December 2003

In 2003, the International Bureau of WIPO received 110,065 international applications filed with PCT receiving Offices worlda decrease of 3.5% compared to 2002.

Top countries of origin. The table, opposite, shows the top 20 countries of origin of international applications for that period. (Note that applications filed with the European Patent Office, the International Bureau, the Eurasian Patent Office or the African Intellectual Property Organization as receiving Offices (wich amounted to 19.1% of all applications) are included in the figures relating to the countries of residence of the applicants.)

*PCT filing received at WIPO by country of origin (2003)*
country of origin	applications received	% of total
US	39,250	35.7
JP	16,774	15.2
DE	13,979	12.7
GB	6,090	5.5
FR	4,723	4.3
NL	4.180	3.8
KR	2,947	2.7
SE	2,491	2.3
CH (incl.LI)	2,379	2.2
CA	2,102	1.9
IT	2,023	1.8
AU	1,729	1.6
FI	1,497	1.4
CN	1,205	1.1
IL	1,161	1.0
DK	1,021	0.9
ES	776	0.7
BE	725	0.6
AT	620	0.6
IN	611	0.6
other countries	3,782	3.4
Total	110,065	100.0