17.10.2007
TIPO: 2007 April-June Quarterly Report On Taiwan`s Trademarks
The Taiwanese Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) has just published the April-June statistic quarterly report of patents, trademarks and copyrights. The report reveal a slight decline in the number of trademark applications and registrations in Taiwan, compared with the numbers in the April-June period of 2006.
31,145 trademark appllications were filed from April to June 2007, 23,900 of which were filed by residents and 7,245 by non-residents. In comparison with the second quarter of 2006 (34,279 applications, 27,078 by residents, 7,201 by non-residents), the number of foreign trademark applications increased, while the number of applications by residents has been declining.
The number of new trademark registrations shows the same trend with 25,081 registrations compared to 27,431 in the same period in 2006. 19,135 trademarks were registered for residents while 5,946 trademarks were newly registered for non-residents. In 2006, the numbers were 20,839 and 6,592 respectively, showing an equal decline in the number of resident and non-resident registrants.
Source: TIPO
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