GENEVA – Demand for patent safety continued to develop in 2022, with innovators in China, the United States, Japan, South Korea and Germany main filings below the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) stated Tuesday.
The complete variety of purposes filed below the worldwide trademark system, often called the Madrid System, reached 69,000 in 2022.
US-based candidates filed the most important variety of worldwide trademark purposes with 12,495, adopted by these in Germany (7,695), China (4,991), France (4,403) and the United Kingdom (4,227).
Among the highest 15 nations of origin within the worldwide trademark system, solely three -the Netherlands (+7.4%), South Korea (+2.1%), and Trkiye (+5.2%)- recorded development from 2021 to 2022.
In distinction, Germany and Italy noticed the sharpest declines with -12.5 p.c and 13.9 p.c, respectively.
“International IP filings largely held up in 2022. Despite difficult economic conditions and a decline in risk finance, businesses continued to invest in innovation,” stated WIPO Director General Daren Tang.
China fuels design purposes
“China’s entry into the Hague System – WIPO’s international register for industrial designs – fueled design applications from China and the rest of the world, showing that multilateral approaches to international cooperation can deliver benefits for everyone.”
Russia’s participation within the worldwide mental property system was accompanied by declines within the case of all three methods.
“So patent filings by Russian applicants are down. International patent filings are down by 14.5%, international trademark applications are down 6.6%, and industrial design applications are down 30.9%,” stated WIPO chief economist Carsten Fink at a news convention.
“We also saw a significant impact in the extent to which trademark applicant designated Russia in their international trademark application.”
So total, there was a decline of 31 p.c in Russian designation in worldwide trademark purposes.
“There is one interesting exception; we actually saw an increase in international trademark designations in Russia by Turkish applicants of some 27% in 2021,” Fink stated.
In 2022, the variety of designs included in worldwide purposes below WIPO’s Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs elevated by 11.2 p.c to achieve 25,028.
Still, following distinctive development of 15 p.c in 2021, the usage of the worldwide trademark system for model safety in 2022 declined by 6.1 p.c, probably the most vital drop since 2009.
The complete variety of purposes filed in 2022 was about 69,000.
Trademark safety
The financial disruptions attributable to the coronavirus illness 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic in 2021 prompted companies to introduce new items and providers, which helped gasoline the distinctive development in worldwide trademark safety.
Although decrease than in 2021, the overall variety of purposes filed below WIPO’s Madrid system for the worldwide registration of emblems in 2022 was nonetheless 8 p.c greater than in 2020.
In 2022, China continued to be the highest origin of worldwide patent system (Patent Cooperation Treaty), as Huawei know-how remained the highest filer, with 70,015 – a modest development of 0.6 p.c from the earlier yr.
The US got here in second with 59,056 purposes – a 0.6 p.c drop on 2021). Japan adopted with 50,345 purposes (+0.1%). South Korea (with 22,012) and Germany (17,530) rounded out the highest 5 purposes, each experiencing development with 6.2 p.c and 1.5 p.c, respectively. (Anadolu)