WIPI
The WIPI records IP filings made in 2021, based on figures compiled from IP offices. It found that IP applications in all areas reached record highs, driven by growth in Asia.
The total trade mark class count worldwide was 18.1 million, up 5.5% on 2020. This comprised 13.9 million trade mark applications. Trade mark filing activity grew in 18 of the top 20 offices. The UK led the growth, with an increase of 61.8%, while China’s IP office had the highest total volume of filing activity with a class count of 9.5 million.
Industrial design filing rose by 9.2% to 1.5 million designs in 2021 (with 1.2 million design applications). China’s IP office received applications covering 805,710 designs during the year, or 53.2% of the world total.
Read more in this post on the Class 46 blog.
Traditional knowledge
WIPO has launched Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge Language Packs containing short and practical print and audio information resources aimed at indigenous and local community entrepreneurs.
They are currently available in 14 languages, and further languages may be added.
Read more on WIPO’s website.
Green Technology Book 2022
WIPO has launched the first edition of the Green Technology Book, which focuses on climate-change adaptation. It is created in cooperation with the partners Climate Technology Center and Network (CTCN) and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASTR) and was released at COP27 in Egypt.
Find out more and access the book here.
Paraguay joins IP treaties
Paraguay has joined the Nairobi Treaty protecting the Olympic symbol against unauthorised use for commercial purposes and the Vienna Agreement on international classification of the figurative elements of marks.
More information is on WIPO’s website here.
Issue 143
You can now download the paper that won this year’s Lewis Gaze Memorial Award from the MARQUES website
Annual Conference delegates can still download the Resource Pack, which includes photos, presentations and videos of the Conference sessions, from the MARQUES website
On 17 November the EU Court of Justice handed down judgments in five cases concerning the interpretation of legislation including the Trade Mark Directive and Enforcement Directive
EUIPO hosted the annual meetings of the five biggest trade mark and design offices at the end of October
Developments at EUIPO include new offices joining the IP Register in Blockchain, MBBC meetings and further extension of time limits for parties in Ukraine
WIPO has published the World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report, as well as a traditional knowledge language pack and Green Technology Book. Plus: Paraguay has joined two IP treaties
Gabriele Engels, Co-Vice-Chair of the MARQUES Cyberspace Team, provides an update on the EU Digital Services Act
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MARQUES was very sorry to hear of the sudden and unexpected death of Björn Bahlmann on 4 November