CAPMAS reports 8.7% increase in patent number in 2019

CAIRO - 26 April 2020: With 175 patents granted to Egyptian authors in 2019, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) reported an 8.7 percent increase in the number of patents granted by the Egyptian Patent Office to both Egyptians and non-Egyptian authors in 2019 compared with the year before.

The office granted 750 patents in 2019 compared to 690 in 2018, the agency said.

The number of patents issued to Egyptians this year hit 175 against 155 in 2018.

Some 575 patents have been granted to non-Egyptian authors this year against 535 in 2018.

A total of 2,183 patent applications were filed with the office in 2019, including 1,027 by Egyptians and 1,156 by foreigners, down by 3.2 percent from 2018.

The CAPMAS statement came on the occasion of the World Intellectual Property Day.