TIPO Statistics Report: Patent and Trademark Applications in 2015 - 2016.03.24

In 2015, overall applications dropped 5.6% from the previous year to 73,627 cases. Invention patent applications (44,415 cases) saw decline for the third year in a row. In trademark, applications (78,523 cases) reached a peak in ten years. Thanks to TIPO’s active management of examination efficiency, the average pendency for disposal of invention patents in December 2015 was shortened to 22.9 months, and pending applications were lowered to 72,510 cases.

Overall applications for invention (44,415 cases), utility model (21,404 cases), and design (7,808 cases) were all down from the previous year with inventions dropping by 1,963 cases (-4.2%)(Fig. 1). In all, inventions showed a smaller decline than the previous year whereas the drop in utility models (-2,084 cases or -8.9%) became greater over the past three years...read more

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