16 December 2014 – Despite an uneven global economic recovery, international patent requests continued to surge in 2013, extending the run of strong annual increases in intellectual property (IP) filings to a fourth consecutive year, a new United Nations study reported today.
The 2014 edition of the World Intellectual Property Indicators – a benchmark report gleaning data from 100 countries and released by the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – noted that applications for trademarks, industrial designs and utility models increased over the last year, fuelled by strong demand in China, the United States and Japan.
Image: WIPO Director General Francis Gurry presents the World Intellectual Property Indicators 2014 at a press conference in Geneva. Photo:WIPO - http://www.un.org
