India's intellectual property office will be at the end of each fiscal year, a global public annual reports, India's fiscal year as of April of each year to the next year in March, affected by the outbreak of the Covid-19, India's intellectual property office of the annual report has not yet been released 2019-20, connected, Chadha & Chadha to India intellectual property office of the annual report 2018-19 review, sharing of intellectual property rights in recent years, the overall trend in India.
The chart below shows the trends over the past five years in the three IP categories of patents, designs and trademarks filed with the Intellectual Property Office of India:
It can be seen that the three types of applications are on the rise, among which the number of trademark applications has reached 323,798. In this issue, we will briefly share the trademark part.
Trends in trademark applications in India over the past five years
Above for nearly five years of India's trademark application, review, authorization, and final Disposal quantity change, you can see, the 2017-18 and 2018-19 two year before the final quantity is obviously more than 3 year, this is because India's intellectual property office of the expansion of the examiners, this makes the previous case extrusion been digested, India's trademark authorization cycle is shorten to about six to eight months.
2. Comparison of domestic and foreign applicants in Indian trademark applications
As can be seen from the above figure, the majority of Indian trademark applications are from India itself, accounting for about 90% to 95%; Applications from abroad account for about 5-10%.
3. 2018-19 Ranking of Foreign Origin Applications - Country or Region
In 2018-19, the number of applications from foreign countries, ranked by country or region, were the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, China, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, France, Australia, Taiwan, and the Cayman Islands. Of these, 2,716 applications came from China, the second largest.
4. Field distribution of trade mark applications in India in 2018-19
5. Five-year trends in Madrid's designation of India through international trademark applications
As can be seen, the number of international trademark applications designating India has been on the rise in the past five years, reaching 14,778 in 2018-19. Similar to domestic applications in India, the number of grants in 2017-18 and 2018-19 was significantly higher than that in the previous three years, mainly due to the shortened review cycle.
From: CHADHA & CHADHA
Date: March 9, 2021
