IPR Trends Q2 2014: Patent and Trademark Statistics - 2014.08.25

Statistics released by TIPO show an 8.14% drop in overall patenting activities, brought down mainly by decrease in both domestic and foreign invention patent applications. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., the all-time leader in domestic invention filing, saw a 73.03% plunge. The number of pending invention applications, on the other hand, was down for the first time to less than 120,000. In trademark, applications grew by 8.81%. Mainland China, of all the major trademark filing countries, came out on top for the first time with 926 applications.

The number of overall patent applications (18,618) in Q2 2014 was 8.14% less than in Q2 2013. This is because of a 10.81% decrease in invention applications (10,462; Table 1, Fig 1), the greatest drop since Q3 2009. Domestic filings (4,435; -16.43%) were down mainly by a 23.74% slump in corporate applications (3,006); an increase in applications filed by non-corporate nationals (772; +16.27%), however, did little to break this downward spiral. Likewise, decrease in the number of foreign corporate applications (5,814; -5.91%) (Fig. 1) also brought down overall foreign applications (6,027; -6.17%). Breakdown by countries of origin, the top five invention filing countries are Japan (2,661), the U.S.(1,445), South Korea (505), Germany (304), and mainland China (269) (Fig 2).

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