Thomson CompuMark, a Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business and global operator in trademark searching and brand protection solutions, has released its 2012 State of Trademarks report. The report tracks published trademark activity and identifies trends across the world's largest collection of trademark databases from186 countries and registrars using the Thomson Reuters SAEGIS on SERION online screening tool.
According to the report, the UK and Turkey have shown the strongest growth among top 10 registrars. Trademark offices in the two countries had the largest percent increase in activity over the prior period, with jumps of 10 percent and 8 percent, respectively.
China led global registrars, with the Chinese trademark office publishing nearly 925,000 trademarks in 2012, more than triple the US' total of 234,527. The activities of these two offices were followed by Brazil: 114,668, Turkey: 86,517, and France: 86,348, to round out the top five.
Italy may be labelled as the fashion capital of the world, but trademark statistics showed that Class 25 (Clothing, Footwear, Headgear) was led by China (69 percent), the US (15 percent), France (8 percent), Japan (4 percent) and Turkey (4 percent) - all of which outpaced Italy.
The report has further said that Advertising & Business Management (Class 35) topped the charts. Across all international trademark classes, class 35 was by far the most active with nearly 393,000 published trademarks across the 186 authorities studied.
There was little change among the top 10 registrars publishing trademarks. On a year-over-year basis, China, the US, Brazil, Turkey, France, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Canada and the UK collectively showed a modest decline of 0.25 percent compared to the top 10 countries from the prior period in total published trademarks (as of data from December 18, 2012).
