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EU members submitted almost 90,000 trademark applications in 2015: Eurostat

Xinhua, April 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Almost 90,000 applications for trademark (TM) protection were received in 2015 by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) from EU member states, a four-fold increase from the mid-1990s, according to data released by Eurostat on Monday, ahead of World Intellectual Property Day on April 26.

In recent years, the number of EU trademark applications originating from EU member states has risen steadily, with the exception of the slowdown registered during the economic and financial crisis in 2008, said Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU.

Moreover, applications made in 2015 from EU member states accounted for nearly 70 percent of all EUIPO applications, which totaled 130,385 applications.

The highest number by far of TM applications made to EUIPO from outside the EU came from the United States, ahead of China, Switzerland, Japan and South Korea.

Across the EU, Germany was the first in terms of applications for TM protection in 2015, followed at a distance by Britain, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Poland. Endit