WIPO: China Drives Record Patent, Trademark, Design Filings in 2016
WIPO: China Drives Record Patent, Trademark, Design Filings in 2016
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GENEVA, Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
Worldwide filings for patents, trademarks and industrial designs reached
record heights
[http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2017/article_0013.html ] in 2016
amid soaring demand in China, the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization
reports.
Innovators around the world filed 3.1 million patent applications in 2016,
up 8.3% in a seventh straight yearly increase, according to WIPO's annual World
Intellectual Property Indicators report.
Trademark applications jumped by 16.4% to about 7 million, and worldwide
industrial design applications grew by 10.4% to almost 1 million - both also
driven by growth in China.
"The latest figures charting a rise in demand for intellectual property
rights confirm a decade-long trend, where developments in China increasingly
leave their mark on the worldwide totals," said WIPO Director General Francis
Gurry. "China is increasingly amongst the leaders in global innovation and
branding."
Patents
China's State Intellectual Property Office received the highest number of
patent applications in 2016, a record total of 1.3 million. It was followed by
the United States Patent and Trademark Office (605,571), the Japan Patent
Office (318,381), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (208,830) and the
European Patent Office (159,358). On a per-capita basis, patent filings in
China ranked behind those in Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the U.S.
Trademarks
An estimated 7 million trademark applications were filed worldwide in 2016,
16.4% more applications than in 2015, marking the seventh consecutive year of
growth.
The office of China had the highest volume of filing activity with a class
count of around 3.7 million, followed by the U.S. (545,587), Japan (451,320),
the European Union Intellectual Property Office (369,970) and India (313,623).
Among the top five offices, China (+30.8%), Japan (+30.8%) and India (+8.3%)
reported solid annual growth. Other offices among the top 20 with strong growth
were the Russian Federation (+14.8%), the U.K. (+19.1%) and Viet Nam (+21.1%).
Industrial designs
Global industrial design filing activity in 2016 grew by 10.4% to an
estimated 963,100 applications.
The office of China received applications containing 650,344 designs in
2016, corresponding to 52% of the world total. It was followed by the European
Union IP Office (104,522), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (69,120),
Germany (56,188) and Turkey (46,305). Among the top 20 offices, the fastest
growth in design counts occurred in the Islamic Republic of Iran (+34.8%),
followed by Ukraine (+17.4%), China (+14.3%) and the U.S. (+12.1%).
More: http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2017/article_0013.html
SOURCE: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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