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Flow of patent applications from the top six countries to patent offices around the world. Note: The column on the left is for home countries from which the patent assignees are located. The middle column represents the patent offices around the world that the priority patents in the patent families were filed to. The right column represents countries/regions where the intellectual properties are protected when those patents were applied through WIPO.
