to the guy claiming s korea has more patents than the us i did some research into wipo's latest database to stop both of you from making non sense claims and reveal the truth so here we go straight from the horse's mouth south korea had the world's largest filings per gdp ahead of all countries south korea had the world's largest filings per r d ahead of all countries south korea had the world's nd largest filings per million population ahead of usa and germany uk and france south korea had the world's rd largest resident filings ahead of eu and germany uk france and canada south korea had the world's th largest total patent filings ahead of eu germany canada uk and france source so i guess lakshmix claim isn't completely wrong but aerain is right in that the us has more total patents than s korea i think the sentence simply needs rephrasing as you can see above