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.