Title page

Contents

Foreword 6

Acknowledgements 7

Further information 7

Key numbers 8

Overview of IP filing activity 9

Special theme 12

Patents 24

Highlights 25

Patent statistics 36

Trademarks 88

Highlights 89

Trademark statistics 97

Industrial designs 138

Highlights 139

Industrial design statistics 145

Plant varieties 173

Highlights 174

Plant varieties statistics 178

Geographical indications 189

Creative economy 194

Highlights 195

Creative economy statistics 198

Additional information 211

Data description 212

IP systems at a glance 214

Glossary 218

Abbreviations 225

Annex A. Definitions for selected energy-related technology fields 226

Annex B. Composition of industry sectors by Nice goods and services classes 226

Annex C. Industry sectors by Locarno classes 226

Table 1. Ranking of total (resident and abroad) IP filing activity by origin, 2017 9

Table 2. Ranking of resident IP activity by origin, 2017 10

Standard figures and tables

A1. Trend in patent applications worldwide, 2003-2017 38

A2. Resident and non-resident patent applications worldwide, 2003-2017 38

A3. Trend in patent grants worldwide, 2003-2017 39

A4. Resident and non-resident patent grants worldwide, 2003-2017 39

A5. Patent applications by income group, 2007 and 2017 40

A6. Patent applications by region, 2007 and 2017 40

A7. Trend in patent applications for the top five offices, 1883-2017 41

A8. Patent applications at the top 20 offices, 2017 41

A9. Contribution of resident and non-resident applications to total growth for the top 20 offices, 2016-2017 42

A10. Patent applications at offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2017 42

A11. Contribution of resident and non-resident applications to total growth for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2016-2017 43

A12. Patent grants by income group, 2007 and 2017 43

A13. Patent grants by region, 2007 and 2017 44

A14. Trend in patent grants for the top five offices, 1883-2017 44

A15. Patent grants for the top 20 offices, 2017 45

A16. Patent grants for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2017 45

A17. Equivalent patent applications by origin, 2017 46

A18. Equivalent patent applications for the top 20 origins, 2017 46

A19. Patent applications for the top 20 offices and origins, 2017 47

A20. Flows of non-resident patent applications between the top five origins and the top 10 offices, 2017 48

A21. Distribution of patent applications for the top 15 offices and selected origins, 2017 49

A22. Equivalent patent grants for the top 20 origins, 2017 49

A23. Trend in patent families worldwide, 2001-2015 50

A24. Distribution of patent families by number of offices for the top 20 origins, 2013-2015 50

A25. Trend in foreign-oriented patent families worldwide, 2000-2014 51

A26. Foreign-oriented patent families for the top 20 origins, 2013-2014 51

A27. Top 50 patent applicants worldwide, based on total number of patent families, 2013-2015 52

A28. Distribution of technology fields for each top 10 applicant based on patent families, 2013-2015 53

A29. Top five university and PRO patent applicants worldwide for selected origins, based on patent families, 2013-2015 54

A30. Distribution of technology fields for selected universities and PROs based on patent families, 2013-2015 55

A31. Published patent applications worldwide by field of technology, 2006, 2011 and 2016 56

A32. Distribution of published patent applications by technology field for the top 10 origins, 2014-2016 57

A33. Trend in patent applications in energy-related technologies, 2002-2016 58

A34. Relative specialization for patent applications in energy-related technologies for the top origins, 2014-2016 59

A35. PCT applications with women inventors, 2003-2017 60

A36. Share of PCT applications with women inventors for the top 20 origins, 2017 60

A37. Distribution of inventors listed in PCT applications for the top 20 origins, 2017 61

A38. Share of PCT patent applications with women inventors by field of technology, 2017 61

A39. Resident patent applications per USD 100 billion GDP for the top 20 origins, 2007 and 2017 62

A40. Resident patent applications per million population for the top 20 origins, 2007 and 2017 62

A41. Trend in patents in force worldwide, 2008-2017 63

A42. Patents in force at the top 20 offices, 2017 63

A43. Patents in force in 2017 as a percentage of total applications 64

A44. Average age of patents in force at selected offices, 2012 and 2017 64

A45. Distribution of patent examination outcomes for selected offices, 2017 65

A46. Potentially pending applications at the top 20 offices, 2017 65

A47. Average pendency times for first office action and final decision at selected offices, 2017 66

A48. Average years of experience of patent examiners for selected offices, 2017 66

A49. Trend in PCT applications, 2002-2017 67

A50. PCT applications by origin, 2017 67

A51. PCT applications for the top 20 origins, 2017 68

A52. PPH requests by offices of first filing and offices of later examination, 2017 69

A53. Flows of PPH requests between offices of first filing and offices of later examination, 2017 70

A54. Trend in utility model applications worldwide, 2003-2017 71

A55. Utility model applications for the top 20 offices, 2017 71

A56. Utility model applications for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2017 72

A57. Trend in microorganism deposits worldwide, 2003-2017 73

A58. Deposits at the top international depositary authorities, 2017 73

A59. Patent applications by office and origin, 2017 74

A60. Patent grants by office and origin, and patents in force, 2017 79

A61. Patent office procedural data, 2017 83

A62. Utility model applications and grants by office and origin, 2017 85

B1. Trend in trademark applications worldwide, 2004-2017 99

B2. Trend in trademark application class counts worldwide, 2004-2017 99

B3. Resident and non-resident trademark application class counts worldwide, 2004-2017 100

B4. Trend in trademark registrations worldwide, 2004-2017 100

B5. Trend in trademark registration class counts worldwide, 2004-2017 101

B6. Resident and non-resident trademark registration class counts worldwide, 2004-2017 101

B7. Trademark application class counts by income group, 2007 and 2017 102

B8. Trademark application class counts by region, 2007 and 2017 102

B9. Trend in trademark applications for the top five offices, 1883-2017 102

B10. Trademark application class counts for the top 20 offices, 2017 103

B11. Contribution of resident and non-resident application class counts to total growth for the top 20 offices, 2016-2017 103

B12. Trademark application class counts for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2017 104

B13. Contribution of resident and non-resident application class counts to total growth for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2016-2017 104

B14. Trademark registration class counts by income group, 2007 and 2017 105

B15. Trademark registration class counts by region, 2007 and 2017 105

B16. Trend in trademark registrations for the top five offices, 1883-2017 105

B17. Trademark registration class counts for the top 20 offices, 2017 106

B18. Trademark registration class counts for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2017 106

B19. Equivalent trademark application class counts by origin, 2017 107

B20. Trademark application class counts for the top 20 origins, 2017 107

B21. Trademark application class counts for selected low- and middle-income origins, 2017 108

B22. Trademark application class counts abroad for the top 20 origins, 2017 108

B23. Trademark application class counts for the top 25 offices and origins, 2017 109

B24. Flows of non-resident trademark application class counts between selected top origins and offices, 2017 111

B25. Distribution of trademark application class counts for the top 15 offices and selected non-resident origins, 2017 112

B26. Distribution of trademark applications by top Nice classes, 2017 113

B27. Trademark applications by goods and services classes, 2017 113

B28. Trademark applications by industry sector, 2017 114

B29. Trademark applications by top three sectors at the top offices, 2017 115

B30. Distribution of trademark applications by goods and services at the top offices, 2017 115

B31. Trademark applications by top three sectors for the top origins, 2017 116

B32. Distribution of trademark applications by goods and services for the top origins, 2017 116

B33. Resident trademark application class count per USD 100 billion GDP for selected origins, 2007 and 2017 117

B34. Resident trademark application class count per million population for selected origins, 2007 and 2017 117

B35. Collective trademark applications for the top 20 offices, 2017 118

B36. Certification trademark applications for the top 20 offices, 2017 118

B37. Trend in trademark registrations in force worldwide, 2010-2017 119

B38. Trademark registrations in force for the top 20 offices, 2017 119

B39. Trademark registrations in force in 2017 as a percentage of total registrations recorded between 1991 and 2017 120

B40. Average age of trademarks in force at selected offices, 2012 and 2017 120

B41. Trademark examination decisions for selected offices, 2017 121

B42. Trademark applications pending for selected offices, 2017 121

B43. Trademark examiners for selected offices, 2017 122

B44. Duration of trademark examination for selected offices, 2017 122

B45. Third party oppositions for selected offices, 2017 123

B46. Appeals to decisions by selected offices, 2017 123

B47. Trend in Madrid international applications, 2004-2017 124

B48. Madrid international applications by origin, 2017 124

B49. Madrid applications for the top 20 origins, 2017 125

B50. Designations in Madrid international applications for the top 20 designated Madrid members, 2017 125

B51. Trademark applications by office and origin, 2017 126

B52. Trademark registrations by office and origin, and trademarks in force, 2017 131

B53. Trademark office procedural data, 2017 136

C1. Trend in industrial design applications worldwide, 2004-2017 146

C2. Trend in application design counts worldwide, 2004-2017 146

C3. Resident and non-resident application design counts worldwide, 2004-2017 147

C4. Trend in industrial design registrations worldwide, 2004-2017 147

C5. Trend in registration design counts worldwide, 2004-2017 148

C6. Resident and non-resident registration design counts worldwide, 2004-2017 148

C7. Application design counts by income group, 2007 and 2017 149

C8. Application design counts by region, 2007 and 2017 149

C9. Trend in industrial design applications for the top five offices, 1883-2017 150

C10. Application design counts for the top 20 offices, 2017 150

C11. Contribution of resident and non-resident application design counts to total growth for the top 20 offices, 2016-2017 151

C12. Application design counts for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2017 151

C13. Contribution of resident and non-resident application design counts to total growth for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2016-2017 152

C14. Registration design counts for the top 20 offices, 2017 152

C15. Registration design counts for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2017 153

C16. Equivalent application design counts by origin, 2017 154

C17. Equivalent application design counts for the top 20 origins, 2017 154

C18. Application design counts for the top 20 origins, 2017 155

C19. Application design counts for selected low- and middle-income origins, 2017 155

C20. Flows of non-resident design counts for the top five origins and the top 10 offices of high-income economies, 2017 156

C21. Flows of non-resident design counts for the top five origins and the top 10 offices of low- and middle-income economies, 2017 157

C22. Application design counts by Locarno class, 2017 158

C23. Distribution of application design counts by the top three sectors and for the top 10 offices, 2017 158

C24. Distribution of application design counts by the top three sectors for the top 10 origins, 2017 159

C25. Resident application design count per USD 100 billion of GDP for the top 20 origins, 2007 and 2017 160

C26. Resident application design count per million population for the top 20 origins, 2007 and 2017 160

C27. Trend in industrial design registrations in force worldwide, 2010-2017 161

C28. Industrial design registrations in force for the top 20 offices, 2017 161

C29. Industrial design registrations in force in 2017 as a percentage of total registrations 162

C30. Average age of industrial design registrations in force at selected offices, 2012 and 2017 162

C31. Trend in designs contained in Hague international applications, 2004-2017 163

C32. Designs contained in Hague international applications by origin, 2017 163

C33. Designs contained in Hague international applications for the top 20 origins, 2017 164

C34. Designs contained in designations in Hague international applications for the top 20 designated Hague members, 2017 164

C35. Industrial design applications by office and origin, 2017 165

C36. Industrial design registrations by office and origin, and industrial designs in force, 2017 169

D1. Trend in plant variety applications worldwide, 2003-2017 179

D2. Trend in plant variety titles issued worldwide, 2003-2017 179

D3. Plant variety applications by income group, 2007 and 2017 180

D4. Plant variety applications by region, 2007 and 2017 180

D5. Plant variety applications for the top 20 offices, 2017 181

D6. Contribution of resident and non-resident applications to total growth for the top 20 offices, 2016-2017 181

D7. Plant variety applications for offices of selected low- and middle-income countries, 2017 182

D8. Plant variety titles issued by the top 20 offices, 2017 182

D9. Equivalent plant variety applications by origin, 2017 183

D10. Plant variety applications for the top 20 origins, 2017 183

D11. Plant variety applications abroad for the top 20 origins, 2017 184

D12. Plant variety titles issued for the top 20 origins, 2017 184

D13. Plant variety titles issued abroad for the top 20 origins, 2017 185

D14. Trend in plant variety titles in force worldwide, 2003-2017 186

D15. Plant variety titles in force at selected offices, 2017 186

D16. Plant variety applications and titles issued by office and origin, and plant variety titles in force by office, 2017 187

F1. Trade sector revenue, 2017 199

F2. Distribution of the trade sector revenue by format type, 2017 199

F3. Distribution of the trade sector revenue by destination, 2017 200

F4. Number of titles published by the trade sector, 2017 200

F5. Distribution of titles published by the trade sector by format, 2017 201

F6. Number of copies sold by the trade sector, 2017 201

F7. Distribution of copies sold by sales channel for the trade sector, 2017 202

F8. Educational sector revenue, 2017 203

F9. Distribution of the educational sector revenue by format, 2017 203

F10. Distribution of the educational sector revenue by destination, 2017 204

F11. Number of titles published by the educational sector, 2017 204

F12. Distribution of titles published by the educational sector by format, 2017 205

F13. Number of copies sold by the educational sector, 2017 205

F14. Distribution of copies sold by sales channel for the educational sector, 2017 206

F15. STM sector revenue, 2017 207

F16. Number of titles published by the STM sector, 2017 207

F17. Total net publishing industry revenue by sector, 2017 208

F18. Total number of titles published by sector, 2017 209

F19. Total number of copies sold by sector, 2017 210