There is an upward trend in invention patent applications filed with Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) in the recent 3 years. There are 45,650 cases filed in 2019, an annual increase of 2.6%. Invention patent applications filed with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have grown for 10 consecutive years. There are 265,800 applications by estimate in 2019, an annual increase of 5.2% (see Fig. 1).
Applications filed by domestic/foreign applicants keep growing in the last 3 years as well. 18, 294 applications were filed by domestic applicants in 2019, a proportion of 40.1%; while there are 27, 356 applications filed by foreign applicants, a proportion of 59.9% (see Fig. 2). The Japanese took the first place among the foreign applicants, followed up by the American and Chinese; the numbers of applications of these three countries have grown up. Due to a significant growth of 10.6% of applications filed by Chinese with WIPO, Chinese become the first in WIPO in terms of applicants’ nationality, surpassing the American and Japanese.
In terms of technical fields, applications filed with TIPO in the field of “semiconductor” dominate the first for the last 5 years, a proportion of 11.6% in 2019, followed up by “computing technology”, “electro-mechanical energy device” and “optics”. Applications of “computing technology” rank the first in WIPO, followed by “digital communication” and “electro-mechanical energy device”, “semiconductor” and “optics” are the 9th and 10th respectively.
Except for Germany and Hong Kong, applications of “semiconductor” are included in the top 3 technical fields filed by major countries (regions) with the TIPO. Among these major countries, applications filed by Japan, the U.S. and South Korea are mostly in the field of “semiconductor”; Taiwan, China and Hong Kong are in the field of “computing technology” and Germany is in the field of “organic precision chemistry” (see table 1).
With regard to applications filed with WIPO, except for Germany, applications related to “computing technology” are filed by the countries mentioned above. China and South Korea have filed quite a number of applications in “digital communication”. The U.S. is in the field of “computing technology”; Japan is in the field of “electro-mechanical energy device” and Germany is in the field of “transportation”, and the layout which is quite different from Taiwan (see table 1).
For more detailed information, please refer to the report on the website:
“Comparison of trend between invention patent applications accepted by TIPO and WIPO in 2019” (https://www.tipo.gov.tw/tw/cp-174-219414-a1c98-1.html)
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Related Link
- “Comparison of trend between invention patent applications accepted by TIPO and WIPO in 2019”
https://www.tipo.gov.tw/tw/dl-276121-6c3c606330244c759f36a50b228343f4.html
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