TNO innovation strategy

Patent filings in countries

#	Country	Total Patents
#1	EPO (European Patent Office)	2,304
#2	WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)	1,378
#3	United States	801
#4	Netherlands	671
#5	Australia	313
#6	Canada	309
#7	China	263
#8	France	237
#9	Germany	212
#10	United Kingdom	180
#11	Republic of Korea	165
#12	Japan	135
#13	Taiwan	96
#14	Switzerland	87
#15	Belgium	70
#16	Brazil	63
#17	Austria	48
#18	Denmark	48
#19	Israel	48
#20	South Africa	48
#21	Norway	42
#22	Sweden	37
#23	Spain	33
#24	Italy	31
#25	New Zealand	31
#26	Ireland	27
#27	Mexico	16
#28	Finland	15
#29	Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)	11
#30	Greece	10
#31	Hungary	10
#32	Argentina	9
#33	Singapore	9
#34	India	8
#35	Luxembourg	8
#36	Czechoslovakia	7
#37	Poland	7
#38	Portugal	7
#39	USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics)	7
#40	African Regional Industrial Property Organization	6
#41	German Democratic Republic	6
#42	Hong Kong	5
#43	Morocco	4
#44	Malaysia	4
#45	Czechia	3
#46	EAPO (Eurasian Patent Organization)	3
#47	Egypt	3
#48	African Intellectual Property Organization	3
#49	Serbia	2
#50	Russian Federation	2
#51	Ukraine	2
#52	Chile	1
#53	Cyprus	1
#54	Jordan	1
#55	Kenya	1
#56	Philippines	1
#57	Romania	1
#58	Slovakia	1
#59	Tunisia	1

#	Industry
#1	Environmental technology
#2	Measurement
#3	Machines
#4	Semiconductors
#5	Chemical engineering
#6	Pharmaceuticals
#7	Surface technology and coating
#8	Organic fine chemistry

#	Technology
#1	Analysing materials
#2	Semiconductor devices
#3	Separation
#4	Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
#5	Unspecified technologies
#6	Therapeutic chemical compounds
#7	Shaping of plastics
#8	Climate change mitigation in goods production
#9	Coating metallic material
#10	Special acyclic compounds

#	Name	Total Patents
#1	Sadeghian Marnani Hamed	170
#2	Van Den Brand Jeroen	112
#3	Goetheer Earl Lawrence Vincent	110
#4	Volker Arno Willem Frederik	105
#5	Houben Rene Jos	95
#6	Van Mol Antonius Maria Bernardus	95
#7	Rijfers Andries	91
#8	Slaghek Theodoor Maximiliaan	85
#9	Jetten Jan Matthijs	82
#10	Van Es Maarten Hubertus	81

Publication	Filing date	Title
WO2020242314A1	2020-05-29	Thermochromic materials
WO2020122726A1	2019-12-13	Flexible concrete
EP3815795A1	2019-10-30	Membrane transducer with improved bandwidth
EP3812361A1	2019-10-22	Production of aromatic acids and phenolics
WO2020080945A1	2019-10-18	High speed photochemistry for 3d lithography
EP3806351A1	2019-10-11	Optimizing alignment in optical communication
EP3805682A1	2019-10-08	Device for the suppression of acoustic streaming in thermoacoustic systems
EP3805667A1	2019-10-08	Thermoacoustic device
EP3800174A1	2019-10-03	Acidic elimination for bio-based aromatics
EP3798179A1	2019-09-26	Wet oxidation hydrogen purification
EP3795236A1	2019-09-19	Formic acid formation from a carbon dioxide source
EP3795237A1	2019-09-19	Formic acid formation from a carbon dioxide source
EP3792040A1	2019-09-10	Dispensing head for fused filament type additive manufacturing
EP3792039A1	2019-09-10	Dispensing head for continuous fiber reinforced fused filament type additive manufacturing
EP3789611A1	2019-09-06	Electrically conductive liquid propellant pulsed plasma thruster
EP3787381A1	2019-08-30	Electronic device with multilayer laminate
WO2020046124A1	2019-08-29	Diels-alder reaction with furanics to obtain aromatics
EP3786631A1	2019-08-28	Optimization of an acoustic membrane array
EP3782725A1	2019-08-21	Reactor for the hydrothermal treatment of biomass
EP3784007A1	2019-08-19	Electronic component on flexible substrate