Monday, December 15, 2014

Statistics from the World's Five Largest Intellectual Property Offices

Message from the USPTO:

The world’s five largest intellectual property organization (IP5) released its 2013 Annual Statistics Report. The report is designed to facilitate an understanding of operations and patent procedures among the Offices, while providing a means for gauging inventive activity, technology flow and comparing procedures. The IP5 Offices, which together handle about 89 percent of the world’s patent applications, began meeting in 2007 and include: the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO).

The IP5 offices also provide detailed statistical data sheets for historical numbers of patent application filings going back to the 1980s and patent grants broken down by International Patent Classification (IPC) codes and country of origin. The additional statistical data also includes an office by office comparison of fees associated with the patent process, including those associated with services by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

For the full report and additional information on the IP5 please visit their website: www.fiveipoffices.org/statistics/statisticsreports/2013edition.html.