TURKPATENT released Turkish industrial property statistics of 2021

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has released statistics of 2021. A total number of 248,597 domestic industrial property applications were filed in 2021, including 8,439 patent applications, 4,418 utility model applications, 176,493 trademark applications and 59,247 design applications.

Compared to the previous year 2020, it has been observed that there was an increase of 3 percent in domestic patent applications, 24 percent in domestic utility model applications, 13 percent in domestic trademark applications and 41 percent in domestic design applications.

When domestic and foreign applications are combined, while the total number of domestic and foreign filings increased by 24 percent for utility models, 12 percent for trademarks and 39 percent for designs, the number of patents decreased.

19 universities took place among the first 50 entities to apply for domestic patents in 2021. 11% of domestic patent applications were filed by universities.

The sectors with the highest number of domestic patent applications in 2021 were respectively followings:

• Medical and surgical equipment and orthopedic vehicles (609 patent applications)
• Office machinery and computers' (534 patent applications)
• Household appliances (523 patent applications)
• Motor land vehicles trailer and semi-trailer (483 patent applications)
• Pharmaceutical products, medicinal chemicals and botanical products (469 patent applications).

352 geographical indications were registered in 2021. Thus, the total number of registered geographical indications increased to 990 in Turkey. The provinces with the highest number of geographical indication applications in 2021 were Erzurum with 61 applications, Van with 34 applications and Gaziantep with 28 applications. Turkey has 7 geographical indications registered with the European Union. These are "Antep baklavası (Antep baklava)", "Aydın inciri (Aydın fig)", "Aydın kestanesi (Aydın chestnut)", "Bayramiç Beyazı", "Malatya kayısısı (Malatya apricot)", "Milas zeytinyağı (Milas olive oil)" and "Taşköprü sarımsağı (Taşköprü garlic)".

Turkey ranked 14th in the world in patent applications, 7th in trademark applications, 4th in design applications, and 9th in general industrial property filings at the national level.

Turkey has maintained its position as the country with the highest number of trademark applications in Europe since 2011. On the other hand, TURKPATENT became among the top 10 institutions that issued the most international search reports (ISR) for PCT applications last year.

TURKPATENT's statistics can be found here.

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Turkey tops trademark filings in Europe in 2017

Prof. Dr. Habib Asan, the President of Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT), has given an interview regarding the industrial property activities and statistics in 2017 to Turkey's official news agency, Anadolu Agency (AA), on 26 January 2017.

Here are the highlights from the President's interview with the AA:

• Total 121,108 trademark applications, (of which 106,099 are domestic and 15,009 are foreign) were filed last year. 88% of total trademark applications are of native origin and the number of the application increased 13% compared to the previous year 2016. With these figures, Turkey has once again become the country in Europe where the highest numbers of trademark applications were filed the last year.
• Total of 19,283 patent applications were filed with TURKPATENT in 2017, of which 8,625 are domestic and 10,658 are foreign. With those figures, domestic patent applications increased by 34 percent compared to 2016. The increase rate is a pleasing development, as total 50 thousand patent applications are aimed for till 2023 in parallel to Turkey's 2023 goals declared by the Turkish Government.
• Total 3,320 utility model applications, of which 3,256 are domestic and 64 are foreign, were filed in 2017.
• Total 46,853 design applications, of which 39,172 are domestic and 1,066 are foreign (made through WIPO), were filed in 2017 in Turkey.
• Total 12,424 patent applications (1,964 domestic and 10,460 foreign), 85,573 trademark applications (77,394 domestic and 8,179 foreign), 44,214 design applications (37,280 domestic and 6,934 foreign), and 2,088 utility model applications (2,014 domestic and 74 foreign) were registered in 2017 in Turkey.
• TURKPATENT performed 7,259 searches and examinationS in 2017.
• Turkey has issued important laws and regulations in 2017, such as Industrial Property Code.

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An overview of IP filings in Turkey based on “World Intellectual Property Report – 2017” Published By WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently published world-wide IP trends analysis based on filings and registrations in 2016. The analysis covers the figures of the national and regional filings and international filings of WIPO .

The report indicates that IP filings upward substantively, the increase rate of trade marks applications and design applications are 16.4% and 10.4% respectively and patent applications 8.4%. The source of most of the growths comes from China as expected always.

In the foreword of the report, it is reported that global patent filings grew by 8.3% and global trademark filing activity by 13.5% – making for seven years of straight increases. Following an 8% decline in 2014 and 1% growth in 2015, industrial design filing activity rebounded strongly in 2016 with 8.3% growth.

We have summarized Turkey’s patent, trademark and design filing activity based on the same report as follows:

Trademarks

According to the report, total registered trademarks in force have reached 863,582 in Turkey. Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) registered 218,137 trademarks in 2016, which makes Turkey 4th in the world in trademark registrations. During the same period, SIPO, 270,810, EUIPO 330,379, USPTO 326,481 trademarks were registered.

Number of trademarks registered by TURKPATENT increased 60% between 2012 and 2016. During that period, share of local residents in the registered trademarks has increased to 84.1% from 76.7%.

According to the report of WIPO, 227,159 trademark applications were filed in 2016. With respect to the number of applications, Turkey ranked 9th in the world. China was ranked first with approximately 3,7 million trademark applications. USA and Japan follow China with trademarks applications of 550 thousand and 450 thousand respectively.

Applications for trademark registrations in 2016 came mostly from the sectors of agriculture, service, research and technology.

14.7 percent of trademark applications were made by non-residents abroad. Germany has ranked first among the non-residents filers with 7,993 applications in Turkey. The other primary countries became United States of America and Switzerland with 4,117 thousands and 2,955 thousands respectively.

The first three countries where domestic residents have applied for trademark registration outside Turkey are the European Union, Iran and the USA.

Designs

An estimated 963,100 applications were filed world-wide in 2016, representing annual growth of 10.4%. Increased filings in China accounted for 90% of the total growth in 2016.

TURKPATENT received 46,305 design applications in 2016 and ranked 5th country among other Offices. The State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) became the first with total design applications of 650,344. SIPO was followed by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO; 104,522), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO; 69,120), and the offices of Germany (56,188) and Turkey (46,305).

14.9 percent of design applications (6,894) were made by non-residents. Germany has ranked first among the non-residents filers with 7,993 applications in Turkey. The other primary countries became United States of America and Switzerland with 4,117 thousands and 2,955 thousands respectively. TURKPATENT registered total 48,687 designs in 2016, 7,719 of which pertain to non-residents.

Patents

WIPO reported that in 2016, for the first time, more than 3 million patent applications were filed worldwide in a single year, up 8.3% from 2015. According to the report, driving such strong growth was an exceptional number of filings in China, which received about 236,600 or 98% of the additional filings. The next largest contributor was the United States of America (U.S.) with around 16,200 additional filings.

Contrary to good position in trademark and design filings, Turkey is lagging behind in the patent filings and registrations, although substantive growths have been observed in the last 5 years.

TURKPATENT is ranked 23rd in the patent filings among other Offices, receiving total 6,848 patent applications and granting total 1,764 patents in 2016. Non-residents filed 618 patent applications in 2016, whereas residents filed 6,230 applications in the same period. Total 155 patents were granted for non-residents in 2016, while total 1,609 patents were granted for the residents

In respect of the utility model applications, TURKPATENT takes 7th rank (3,534) among other Offices, whereas 1,4% has decreased compared to the previous year (2015).

Source: http://www.turkrenewals.com/news.html

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