SANKYO CO innovation strategy

Patent filings in countries

#	Country	Total Patents
#1	Japan	30,774
#2	United States	824
#3	Australia	449
#4	Canada	426
#5	EPO (European Patent Office)	418
#6	WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)	404
#7	United Kingdom	300
#8	China	292
#9	Germany	291
#10	France	276
#11	Taiwan	238
#12	Switzerland	224
#13	Republic of Korea	214
#14	Norway	205
#15	South Africa	201
#16	Hungary	190
#17	Spain	183
#18	New Zealand	181
#19	Israel	170
#20	Hong Kong	159
#21	Czechia	154
#22	Russian Federation	151
#23	Denmark	143
#24	Brazil	142
#25	Finland	132
#26	Netherlands	109
#27	Mexico	101
#28	Ireland	95
#29	Italy	86
#30	Sweden	85
#31	Poland	73
#32	Philippines	56
#33	Belgium	55
#34	Austria	40
#35	USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics)	38
#36	Indonesia	34
#37	Argentina	26
#38	Portugal	21
#39	African Intellectual Property Organization	13
#40	Turkey	13
#41	Slovakia	12
#42	German Democratic Republic	11
#43	Iceland	10
#44	India	7
#45	Romania	6
#46	Bulgaria	5
#47	Colombia	5
#48	Latvia	5
#49	Panama	5
#50	Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)	5
#51	Czechoslovakia	4
#52	Egypt	4
#53	Peru	4
#54	Saudi Arabia	4
#55	Ukraine	4
#56	Croatia	3
#57	Malaysia	3
#58	African Regional Industrial Property Organization	2
#59	Luxembourg	2
#60	Singapore	2
#61	Chile	1
#62	Ecuador	1
#63	Estonia	1
#64	Lithuania	1
#65	Serbia	1
#66	Uruguay	1

#	Technology
#1	Heterocyclic compounds
#2	Therapeutic chemical compounds
#3	Medical preparations
#4	Climate change mitigation in goods production
#5	Acyclic or carbocyclic compounds
#6	Fermentation
#7	Sugars
#8	Special acyclic compounds
#9	Preservation of human bodies
#10	Unspecified technologies