assigned a fraction of the family. High-value inventions are distinguished as patent families with applications filed with more than one patent office. Granted patent families represent the proportion of granted applications within a family. The share is then linked to the fractional counts period 2020-2022. During the three-year period from 2020 to 2022, the EU had a 63% share of high-value patents out of the total number of patent applications (47 in total). In the same period, Japan had 100%, rest of the world 63%, the US 39 %, South Korea 19%, China 5% of the total number of high-value patent applications. China applied for a total of 191 patents, of which only 10 the world. The rest of the world came in second place, with the US and China taking turns in third between 2020 and 2022 (data for 2022 is not complete). The leading EU Member States were France with 12 and Germany with 9 high-value inventions, placing France and Germany first and