Tristan Gray- LeCoz

The story that American children learn of their nation is one of adaptation to adversity, expansion into the unknown, and overcoming obstacles—in a word: innovation. Since the United States declared its independence 239 years ago, the world has changed significantly, but innovation and invention remain at the heart of the American cultural mythos.

Here at Juristat, in addition to helping lawyers predict the future by providing top-tier data analytics to patent attorneys and firms, we like to poke around in our data to find interesting facts, figures, and correlations to show to the world. Global trade accounted for nearly 60% of global GDP in the last year measured (2013) and has accounted for at least 50% of global GDP since 2004.