The Israeli Tech Industry - Patents
- Israel ranked 6th globally for PCT patent applications per million population.5
- Patents in Israel are statutory under the Intellectual Property Law. In addition, Israel takes active part in the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH) arrangement.
- Israel ranks 1st in the world in number of patent requests in medical technologies, 2nd in Pharmaceutical technologies, 3th in computer technologies and 5th in Optics technologies.6
- In 2016, 813 original patent applications were approved, compared with 540 in 2015.7
- Most of the applications were filed by companies associated with universities: approximately 72% in 2016 and 73% in 2015 : Yissum of the Hebrew University, Yeda of the Weizmann Institute, Technion R&D foundation, Ramot of Tel Aviv University ,B.G. Negev of Ben Gurion University and more.8
- The most popular field of research is life science, with 2,743 patent requests in 2016, followed by Chemistry, Physics and Electricity.9
- The total revenue of research and development companies in 2014 was approximately $600 million, 95% of which was attributed to the pharmaceuticals industry.10
5 The Global Competitiveness Report, 2017
6 WIPO, 2017
7 Central Bureau of Statistics, 2017
8 Central Bureau of Statistics, 2017
9 Israel patent office annual report, 2016
10 Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics