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Jane Lambert Earlier this year the World Intellectual Property Organization  published WIPO IP Facts and Figures 2018 .  This is a compendium   of statistics on worldwide patent, design and trade mark filings.  The headline figures are that there were 3.17 million patent applications around the world in 2017, as well as 1.78 million utility model applications, 12.39 million trade mark applications and 1.24 million applications for the registration of industrial designs.  The lion's share of those application cams from Asia with 97.1% of the world's utility model, 67.9% of its industrial design, 66.6% of its trade mark and 65.1% of its patent filings.  North America came second in patenting with 20.3% and Europe third with 11.2% but Europe was ahead of North America in trade mark, industrial design and utility model registrations.  Some 85.1% of the world's 3.17 million patent applications were filed with the world's top five patent offices. Ch

Lough Neagh ℗ 2019 Jane Elizabeth Lambert: all rights reserved Jane Lambert If you were wondering what had happened to my blogs I am on holiday in Northern Ireland, Yesterday I took this photo from  Oxford Island , a nature reserve on the southern shore of Lough Neagh, a vast inland sea in the centre of Nothern Ireland. But I am keeping my eyes open and my wits about me so that I can report things that may be of interest to my readers such as the Catalyst Science Parks  in Belfast , Ballymena  and Derry-Londonderry . There are also a ccelerator and incubator programmes i n Nothern Ireland such as Ignite's in Belfast  as well as business angels  and private equity investors . Belfast Central Library used to be listed as a PatLib library but it is no longer on the current list  and there does not appear to be an IP clinic in the province but there are patent and trade mark attorneys who can be identified by searching the I PReg website. The Patents Act 19

Downing College Cambridge Jane Lambert Last week I was invited back to Cambridge by Knect365 to speak to the Cambridge IP Law Summer School  at Downing College. I was asked to repeat the talk on IP disputes and bilateral investment treaties that I gave to the 2017 summer school  and to mention the research on IP enforcement in the digital environment that Professor Frederick Mostert and I had carried out for the Advisory Committee on Enforcement of the WIPO (see Mostert and Lambert  Study on Intellectual Property Enforcement Measures, Especially Anti-piracy Measures in the Digital Environment – Executive Summary   and the full report) . I also chaired the final day's session on "Contentious IP". As in 2017, this year's course took place in Downing College's  Howard Building .  That building consists of a ground floor common room with a licensed bar and an auditorium on the floor above.  Morning coffee, afternoon tea and some lunches and