Page 9 - 2018 Annual Report Taiwan Intellectual Property Office

TIPO ANNUAL REPORT Non-resident applications mainly came from Japan and the United States
3%
18,365
Taiwan
12,871
Japan
4,242
Others
Germany 4% 1,766
R. Korea
1,197
5%
1% 3%
2,595 37% Mainland China
6,393 -+ 0% United States
36% 11%
Mainland China
7%
Germany
777 11% United States
Invention
13% 995 Others
Design
233
France
296
305
1%
4,252
Taiwan
1,224
Top 5 resident and non-resident applicants
Japan 3% Non-Resident
1%
Resident
28%
67%
1 QUALCOMM
1,011
944
66%
2%
22%
2 ALIBABA
10%
3 APPLIED MATERIALS
11%
7%
4 TOKYO ELECTRON
15%
5 NITTO DENKO
594
538
447
416
426
345
372
315
1 TSMC
2 AUO
3 MEDIATEK
4 ITRI
5 ACER
US CN US JP JP
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KEY STATISTICS ON PATENT AND TRADEMARK APPLICATIONS IN 2018