2019 Annual Report Intellectual Property Office

I. IPR APPLICATIONS Patent Applications 01 Trend of Applications Trend of Invention Applications Invention patents by residents and non- res i dent s s tood at 18,984 and 29,284 respectively, registering a growth of 3.4% and 0.8% from 2018. The ratio of residents to non- residents filing invention applications was 4:6. Trend of Utility Model Applications Utility model patent applications by residents and non-residents decreased by 1.5% and 6.5% respectively to 16,412 and 1,168 cases. Applications by residents accounted for over 90% of all utility model patent applications. 73,627 72,442 73,791 73,421 74,652 7,808 8,445 8,120 8,082 8,804 21,404 20,161 19,549 17,910 17,580 44,415 43,836 46,122 47,429 48,268 Total Invention Utility Model Design 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Year 20,132 18,998 18,343 16,661 16,412 1,272 1,163 1,206 1,249 1,168 5.9% 5.8% 6.2% 7.0% 6.6% 94.1% 94.2% 93.8% 93.0% 93.4% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Residents % of Residents % of Non-residents Non-residents Year Residents % of Residents % of Non-residents Non-residents 27,153 26,970 27,923 29,064 29,284 17,262 16,866 18,199 18,365 18,984 38.9% 38.5% 39.5% 38.7% 39.3% 61.1% 61.5% 60.5% 61.3% 60.7% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Year I. IPR APPLICATIONS Patent In 2019, overall patent applications rebounded. Of these, invention patent applications grew for three consecutive years. Design patent applications also spiked, while the drop was shortened in utility model applications. In trademark, applications by case and by class hit a record high. Residents' invention patent and trademark applications went up. The same by non-residents also went up. TIPO received 74,652 patent applications in 2019, registering a 1.7% growth. Of these, i nven t i on pa t en t app l i ca t i ons ( 48 , 268 cases) grew by 1.8%, utility model patent applications (17,580 cases) dropped by 1.8%, and design patent applications (8,804 cases) went up by 8.9%. 17 2019 TIPOANNUAL REPORT