WIPO International Patent, Design and Trade Mark Filings for 2022

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Jane Lambert

The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") operates the Patent Cooperation Treaty ("PCT"), Hague Agreement and the Madrid Protocol.  These are international agreements that facilitate applications for patent, design or trade mark registrations in multiple countries and territories from a single filing. Those agreements simplify and greatly reduce the costs of obtaining international legal protection for technology, designs and brands.

On 28 Feb 2023, the WIPO published its statistics for patent, design and trade mark registrations in 2022.  There had been a 0.3% increase in international patent applications from 277,182 in 2021 to 278,100 despite the pandemic, conflict in Ukraine, fluctuating energy prices and other adverse economic conditions.  There was a much sharper increase in design registration applications from 6,714 in 2021 to 7,973 in 2022.  There was, however, a fall in international trade mark registrations from 73,500 in 2021 to 69,000 in 2022.

The UK was 7th in the number of international patent filings behind China, the USA, Japan, South Korea, Germany and France but ahead of Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands which were 8th, 9th and 10th respectively. In designs, the UK was 8th behind Germany, China, Italy, the USA, Switzerland, France and South Korea but ahead of the Netherlands and Japan.  In trade marks, this country came in 5th behind the USA, Germany, China and France.

There were 5,739 international patent applications from the UK in 2022 compared to 5,841 the year before.  A drop of  1.75%.  The number of international design registration applications from this country increased from 210 to 234 but the number of trade mark applications fell from 4,266 to 4,227 between 2021 and 2022.

India, South  Korea and France had the biggest percentage increases in international patent filings achieving 25.4%, 6.2% and 5.9% respectively.  The company that made the most filings was Huawei with 7,689 which was more than those of the whole  UK.  It was followed by Samsung and Qualcomm (see Top PCT Applicants).  There were no British companies in the top 50 patent applicants. The top university applicant was the University of California with 552 applications followed by Zhejiang and Suzhou.  The only British universities were Imperial College and Oxford University at 44 and 45 (see Top PCT Applications by Educational Institutions).

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