17-3 China advances in European patent applications

China in 2020 showed the largest increase (9.9%) in patents filed at the EPO in 2020 and is number 2 in non-European applicants, after the USA. The ranking was USA > Japan > Germany > China > France > Korea > Switzerland.

https://www.epo.org/about-us/annual-reports-statistics/statistics/2020/statistics/patent-applications.html#tab2