In the first half of 2021, TIPO received a total of 35,264 patent applications (including invention, utility model, and design patents) as well as 46,379 trademark applications; this represents a 4% and 7% increase respectively compared with the same period last year. Invention patent applications filed by resident applicants saw a rapid increase mainly due to a 21% growth in the number of large enterprise applications. TSMC took the lead among resident applicants (1,263 cases), and Qualcomm among non-resident applicants (454 cases). Trademark applications, combined with resident and non-resident applicants, hit a record high again by going up 7%. In general, patent and trademark applications saw steady growth in the first half of 2021.
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