{"id":438,"date":"2020-01-05T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T15:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/?p=438"},"modified":"2021-10-25T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:22:29","slug":"world-intellectual-property-organization-wipo-world-intellectual-property-indicators-wipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/world-intellectual-property-organization-wipo-world-intellectual-property-indicators-wipo\/","title":{"rendered":"World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) &#8211; World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Intellectual Property Organization&#8217;s (WIPO) 2020 annual report, entitled &#8220;<strong>World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020<\/strong>&#8220;, shows an increase of 5.9% in trademark applications and 1.3% in design applications for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, and according to the information provided by the WIPO, patent applications show a significant decline of 3% which is justified by &#8220;the decline in the number of applications filed by Chinese residents&#8221;. Without taking China into consideration, &#8220;patent filings increased by 2.3% worldwide&#8221; in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, China still leads the ranking of IP applications across all rights (patents, trademarks, and designs\/designs) compared to 2018.<br \/>\nAs for Switzerland, it retains its rank of 8th for patents, 14th for trademarks and gains one rank over 2018 (from 11th to 10th) for designs.<\/p>\n<p>The EU countries bordering Switzerland rank respectively in the following places: <strong>patents<\/strong> (Germany 5th France 6th Italy 11th and Austria 16th), <strong>trademarks<\/strong> (Germany 4th France 6th Italy 13th and Austria 24th); <strong>designs<\/strong> (Germany 2nd France 6th Italy 5th and Austria 25th).<\/p>\n<p>Link to the full 2020 annual report:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/edocs\/pubdocs\/en\/wipo_pub_941_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/edocs\/pubdocs\/en\/wipo_pub_941_2020.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Intellectual Property Organization&#8217;s (WIPO) 2020 annual report, entitled &#8220;World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020&#8220;, shows an increase of 5.9% in trademark applications and 1.3% in design applications for 2019. On the other hand, and according to the information provided by the WIPO, patent applications show a significant decline of 3% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}