Global intellectual property filings see boost in 2013 – UN report
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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.
(…) Plant varieties, (…), reached “a new record,” according to WIPO, with around 15,200 filings worldwide – a 4.7 per cent increase in growth from the previous year.