The World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) have released their World Intellectual Property Indicators report for 2019.

While New Zealand and Australia saw a slight drop in trade mark filings as compared to 2018, overall worldwide trade mark filings increased by 5.9% in 2019.


COUNTRY

2018

2019

AUSTRALIA

79,135

73,646

NEW ZEALAND

24,483

24,449


The key markets for trade mark filings in 2019 were:

Asia – 70.6%

Europe 15.4%

North America 5.7%

Latin America and the Caribbean 5.4%

Africa 1.7%

Oceania 1.3%


The full report can be found at  here


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