AS per the WIPO, the number
of international trademark and patent applications rebounded around the world
last year after having fallen in 2009.
Trademark
applications, the most sought-after form of IP protection, recuperated some
of their losses with an increase from about 36,000 to 37,500, a 4.5 per cent
growth, while patent filings rose to 164,300, slightly higher than 2008 levels,
the WIPO reported.
Four Asian countries – China, India, Japan and the Republic of Korea
(ROK) – accounted for 37 per cent of trademark applications. India showed
the highest five-year growth, recording 13.5 per cent from 2005 to 2009, while
China had one of the highest annual growth rates, with 20.8 per cent from 2008
to 2009, according to WIPO
IP Facts and Figures 2011, which covers patents, utility models,
trademarks and industrial designs.
Trademark applications topped three million per year since 2005, with the
China Trademark Office receiving a quarter of all such applications worldwide.
The top 10 patent offices accounted for approximately 87 per cent of all such
applications in 2009, with the United States, Japan and China filing about
60 per cent of the total.
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