Country Selection in Search form
You can restrict your result set to grants or applications of popular authorities.
You can control the search based on the different patent types (Grants/Applications/Utilities) for each country. You can choose or exclude as per the preference. This will help in achieving higher accuracy at the initial step itself.

Addition of Regions in country selection
Now, in the country selection dropdown you can directly select the region for which you want to create the search.
