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Table 4 The similarity of five representative countries/regions in TP and PCT

From: Characterizing patent big data upon IPC: a survey of triadic patent families and PCT applications

Indicators

Global

US

JP

DE

EP

CN

The number of dimensions

36,610

1823

1235

1089

765

657

Similarity

0.935

0.972

0.970

0.892

0.987

0.978