Since July 1, 2017, designated Offices have been required to notify the International Bureau of information concerning international applications which enter the national phase at their Office.
Display of information in the National Phase tab of PATENTSCOPE for an office indicates that the applicant requested national phase processing for the application concerned in that office. The national entry date and national reference number are supplied by the national office concerned and can be used to retrieve further details from that office, if desired. Please note that absence of information for a given office does not necessarily indicate a non-entry in that office.
While the supply of information has improved since the requirement entered into force, further work needs to be done to improve the breadth and quality of the data and the timeliness of its transmission. The information is therefore updated at different frequencies, depending on the office.
More information on the requirement and supply of national phase entries
Updated: January 21, 2021
Country | From | To | Count |
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African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) | June 30, 1996 | August 5, 2008 | 1,077 |
Algeria | April 25, 2000 | December 27, 2014 | 3,451 |
Angola | August 14, 2007 | May 14, 2020 | 1,058 |
Armenia | April 15, 2018 | February 11, 2020 | 8 |
Australia | December 4, 1997 | December 16, 2020 | 388,772 |
Austria | November 27, 1980 | January 14, 2021 | 3,434 |
Azerbaijan | January 21, 2016 | April 21, 2017 | 28 |
Belarus | January 4, 2005 | August 13, 2018 | 1,471 |
Belize | August 26, 2002 | February 8, 2007 | 105 |
Brazil | null | null | 19 |
Brunei Darussalam | January 4, 2000 | April 3, 2019 | 589 |
Bulgaria | January 5, 2004 | December 18, 2007 | 1,252 |
Cambodia | December 26, 2017 | December 26, 2017 | 1 |
Canada | January 31, 1990 | March 18, 2020 | 662,249 |
Chile | January 1, 2015 | March 27, 2019 | 9,570 |
China | January 2, 1994 | November 23, 2020 | 963,674 |
Colombia | December 27, 2001 | February 5, 2018 | 22,684 |
Costa Rica | March 26, 1998 | February 27, 2019 | 8,191 |
Croatia | April 22, 1999 | February 6, 2020 | 4,063 |
Cuba | November 2, 2009 | November 29, 2020 | 541 |
Czech Republic | November 8, 1990 | December 30, 2020 | 28,187 |
Denmark | October 5, 1980 | January 6, 2021 | 1,496 |
Dominican Republic | June 21, 2017 | April 24, 2019 | 221 |
Ecuador | January 10, 2016 | July 10, 2016 | 116 |
Egypt | January 1, 2008 | February 27, 2011 | 3,778 |
Estonia | February 16, 2017 | December 11, 2018 | 8 |
Eurasian Patent Organization | October 1, 1996 | November 29, 2020 | 48,332 |
European Patent Office | April 17, 1913 | January 18, 2021 | 1,960,290 |
Finland | January 13, 1980 | December 28, 2020 | 22,111 |
Georgia | November 26, 1992 | December 29, 2020 | 4,698 |
Germany | November 12, 1980 | December 15, 2020 | 257,986 |
Hungary | January 3, 2006 | January 27, 2019 | 122 |
Iceland | November 16, 1995 | January 7, 2019 | 3,713 |
India | January 31, 1999 | June 29, 2020 | 268,551 |
Indonesia | July 15, 1998 | May 12, 2019 | 19,409 |
Iran (Islamic Republic of) | October 27, 2013 | July 17, 2020 | 2,648 |
Israel | December 5, 1996 | December 30, 2020 | 94,738 |
Japan | April 2, 1991 | December 27, 2020 | 1,162,459 |
Jordan | December 4, 2018 | November 29, 2020 | 474 |
Kazakhstan | June 27, 2001 | October 11, 2020 | 881 |
Kenya | January 5, 1998 | July 25, 2019 | 304 |
Kyrgyzstan | February 19, 1997 | October 5, 2005 | 213 |
Latvia | January 4, 1998 | May 18, 2008 | 333 |
Lithuania | April 11, 1995 | August 11, 2014 | 562 |
Madagascar | January 6, 1994 | September 19, 2019 | 839 |
Malaysia | March 8, 2007 | September 29, 2010 | 4,260 |
Mexico | October 23, 1992 | November 2, 2020 | 266,026 |
Morocco | January 1, 2015 | February 25, 2019 | 1,651 |
Mozambique | February 27, 2018 | May 11, 2020 | 37 |
New Zealand | May 16, 1992 | November 29, 2011 | 70,340 |
Nicaragua | January 2, 2006 | December 14, 2020 | 2,400 |
Norway | August 20, 1980 | November 23, 2020 | 75,512 |
Peru | April 5, 2010 | March 5, 2020 | 9,366 |
Philippines | August 22, 2001 | March 19, 2020 | 39,257 |
Poland | November 21, 2002 | December 9, 2020 | 8,337 |
Republic of Korea | January 25, 1987 | December 23, 2020 | 553,701 |
Republic of Moldova | December 2, 1993 | December 7, 2020 | 633 |
Romania | January 5, 1990 | June 29, 2020 | 4,076 |
Russian Federation | July 16, 2001 | January 14, 2021 | 210,248 |
Sao Tome and Principe | October 20, 2009 | November 17, 2014 | 14 |
Saudi Arabia | February 2, 2015 | August 30, 2020 | 13,104 |
Serbia | September 26, 2006 | October 29, 2020 | 9,527 |
Singapore | January 31, 2016 | December 10, 2020 | 38,452 |
Slovakia | July 23, 1991 | December 29, 2020 | 13,649 |
Slovenia | January 9, 2001 | April 21, 2005 | 218 |
South Africa | December 20, 1999 | October 12, 2020 | 33,572 |
Spain | May 29, 1990 | December 29, 2020 | 2,653 |
Sri Lanka | January 2, 2020 | February 27, 2020 | 32 |
Sweden | December 15, 1982 | January 3, 2021 | 2,426 |
Switzerland | July 7, 2008 | January 11, 2021 | 800 |
Thailand | September 29, 2010 | December 23, 2022 | 6,259 |
Turkey | March 19, 1996 | June 1, 2020 | 15,062 |
Ukraine | June 13, 2005 | December 26, 2020 | 18,554 |
United Arab Emirates | August 31, 2010 | December 30, 2020 | 3,910 |
United Kingdom | December 31, 1899 | December 22, 2020 | 44,814 |
United States of America | December 14, 1916 | August 17, 2020 | 1,171,713 |
Uzbekistan | January 1, 2001 | June 22, 2006 | 946 |
Viet Nam | April 2, 1995 | April 8, 2008 | 11,759 |
Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro | April 16, 1978 | September 21, 2006 | 4,134 |