2.9 million patent applications in 2015, with strong growth in China. Demand for other Intellectual Property rights is also on the rise.
Innovators in China drove a new record in 2015 in the number of patent applications filed worldwide, filing more than one million applications in a single year for the first time, amid rising global demand for intellectual property (IP) rights that underpin economic activity.
In total, innovators around the world filed nearly 2.9 million patent applications in 2015, representing a 7.8% increase over 2014 and the sixth consecutive year of rising demand for patent protection, as reported in WIPO's annual World Intellectual Property Indicators report.
Trademark applications increased by 15.3% to nearly 6 million in 2015, while industrial design applications increased by 2.3% to 872,800.
