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Jane Lambert The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") published its World Intellectual Property Indicators 2018   on 16 Oct 2019.  In September 2019, the Intellectual Property Office published  Facts and figures: patent, trade mark, design and hearing data: 2018   for the UK. The headline figures that appear on page 7 of the WIPO report is that there were over 3.3 million patent applications in 2018 which is 5.2% above the figure for 2017. China accounted for 46.4% of those applications with over 1.5 million. That was an increase of 11.6% on the number of Chinese applications for the previous year. The USA was number 2 with 597, a 1.6% decline on the figure for the previous year.  Japan came a distant third with 313,567 applications. China accounted for more than half of the world's 14.3 million trade mark applications with 7.4 million applications. Again the USA came in second with 640,181 and Japan third with 512,156.  Chin...

Jan 2011 Jan 2013 Jan 2015 Jan 2017 Jan 2019 0 24K 48K 72K 96K Jane Lambert Something remarkable has happened to my NIPC Law blog.  Its readership has soared like a rocket. For the first time ever, it has received more than 100,000 hits in a single month. This is not entirely unexpected I have tried to publish a short post on something new every day whether a case note on a recent decision, an analysis of a new statute or some other important development.  Although I hope my articles will be useful to specialist lawyers and patent and trade mark attorneys I am aware that not every reader is an IP specialist.  Indeed, many are not lawyers at all. For non-specialists, I have posted information pages on copyright , patents , registered and unregistered  designs, trade marks and so on    These can be accessed from the home page  of the NIPC Law blog, clicking on the menu bar in the top left-hand corner (three short lines) and scrol...

Jane Lambert It is often said that intellectual property is crucial to the efficient functioning of modern economies but there is much less research to support that assertion than might be supposed.  However, some valuable research on the topic has recently been undertaken by the  European Patent Office ("EPO")  and the  European Union Intellectual Property Office ("EUIPO") , In September 2013, those institutions published a joint report entitled  Intellectual property rights intensive industries: contribution to economic performance and employment in the European Union .  The EPO and EUIPO published an updated report in October 2016 and they have now published their third report. The report identifies 353 IP intensive industries in the EU which employ directly 63 million people and make work for another 21 million in businesses that supply those industries.  Those same industries generated output worth €6.6 trillion betwee...

Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert One of the topics that were discussed at the 14th session of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement was building respect for intellectual property.  On that topic we heard presentations by, and received handouts from, Rajiv Aggarwal of India, Hedvig Bengston of Norway, Maya Al'Azri of Oman,  Ray Augusto Meloni García of Peru and Liliana Vieru of Moldova. For our entertainment and education, the WIPO secretariat erected a little video lounge called the ACE cinema which showed anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting videos like "Knock off Nigel" which was one of the most amusing.  I particularly love the expression on Nigel's face as his girlfriend dumps the "watch that he found in the street" in his beer,  There were other "Knock off Nigel" videos including one from the office . Although the "Knock off Nigel" films were witty, not everybody liked them,  In  "Why I Hate the Knock off Nigel A...

The WIPO © 2004 Jane Lambert: all rights reserved Jane Lambert WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement 14th Session 2 - 4 Sept 2019 The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO")  is a specialist agency of the United Nations with 192 member states. Its mission is "to lead the development of a balanced and effective international IP system that enables innovation and creativity for the benefit of all." Its mandate, governing body and procedures are set out in the WIPO Convention  to which the British government is a party. One of the WIPO's services is alternative dispute resolution  through arbitration,   mediation  and domain name dispute resolution  and I have been one of its panellists since 2003.  Every year the domain name dispute resolution panellists are invited to Geneva for a day of continuing professional development training.  I have attended every session since 2005 (see Needled in Geneva   18...

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 ...

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...