Hello, in recent years, the general trend of trademark registration in my country has been continued growth, especially in industries such as clothing, agricultural products, food, and business services, which have seen the fastest growth.
In 2013, the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce actively responded to challenges, innovated working mechanisms, comprehensively strengthened management, and deeply tapped internal potential. The trademark registration review work continued to achieve new results.
The number of applications hit a record high again
In 2013, the Trademark Office accepted 1.8815 million trademark registration applications, an increase of 14.15% over the previous year, setting another record high, and continuously Ranked first in the world for 12 years. The number of trademark applications in the five years from 2009 to 2013 (6.85 million) exceeded the total number of trademark applications in the previous 28 years (6.39 million), and the trend of rapid growth in trademark applications continues.
In 2013, there were 1.1758 million online applications for trademark registration, accounting for 62.49% of the total number of applications in the same period, an increase of about 2.3 percentage points from 2012. It can be seen that the electronic application method is accepted by more and more trademark applicants and has become the main trademark application method. As of December 2013, the cumulative number of trademark registration applications was 13.2413 million, the cumulative number of trademark registrations was 8.6524 million, and the number of effective trademark registrations was 7.2379 million.
In 2013, the Trademark Office *** accepted 34,667 trademark objection applications, a decrease of 4.58% from the previous year, indicating that the proportion of preliminary review conclusions made by the Trademark Office is increasingly recognized; it accepted trademark renewal applications 119,324 applications, an increase of 11.54% over the previous year; 177,239 trademark change applications were accepted, an increase of 16.46% over the previous year; 113,364 trademark transfer applications were accepted, an increase of 7.36% over the previous year; 21,414 trademark cancellation and revocation applications were accepted, An increase of 28.47% over the previous year; 29,438 applications for licensing contract registration were accepted, a decrease of 4.31% over the previous year; 53,008 applications for territorial extension of Madrid trademark international registration were accepted, an increase of 9.1% over the previous year.
In 2013, the Trademark Office reviewed 1.4246 million trademark registration applications, an increase of 16.09% over the previous year; the current average review period for trademark registration applications is 10 months. The Trademark Office approved 996,724 registered trademarks; 936,750 announced trademarks were initially approved, an increase of 14.53% over the previous year; 262,185 trademark registration applications were rejected, an increase of 14.63% over the previous year; 225,744 trademark registration applications were partially rejected, an increase of 14.53% over the previous year. The growth rate in the previous year was 25.07%; the growth rate of partially rejected trademark registration applications was significantly higher than the growth rate of preliminary approval and rejection. The Trademark Office adjudicated 43,526 trademark opposition applications, a decrease of 40.49% from the previous year (due to the resumption of reasoning-based adjudication, which made the review of opposition adjudication more difficult). The trademark opposition hearing period is strictly controlled within 12 months.
In 2013, the Trademark Office handled 181,991 applications to change trademark registration matters, an increase of 20.86% over the previous year; handled 114,607 applications for trademark transfer, an increase of 12.43% over the previous year; and handled trademark renewals There were 122,685 applications for trademark registration, an increase of 22.02% over the previous year; 123,415 registered trademarks were canceled or revoked, an increase of 9.36% over the previous year; 34,998 trademark licensing contracts were filed, an increase of 29.89% over the previous year; 582 special signs were registered. applications, an increase of 41.95% over the previous year; 42,743 categories of Madrid territorial extension applications were examined, an increase of 2.41% over the previous year, and a total of 27,611 international changes, renewals, transfers, cancellations, deletions and corrections were handled, which was an increase of 2.41% over the previous year. An increase of 41.54% in one year.
In 2013, the Trademark Office registered and initially approved 436 geographical indication certification trademarks and collective trademarks, an increase of 16.89% over the previous year. By the end of 2013, a total of 2,190 geographical indication certification trademarks and collective trademarks had been registered and initially approved, and a total of 1.4473 million agricultural product trademarks had been approved and registered.
Concentration of registration application categories
Looking at the categories of goods or services designated for use in trademark applications, the top five categories with the largest number of applications are the same as in 2012, followed by category 25 (216,446 (pieces), Category 35 (155,783 pieces), Category 9 (114,976 pieces), Category 30 (103,217 pieces), Category 29 (76,207 pieces). This shows that clothing, business services, instruments and equipment, food, etc. are still the areas where my country’s trademark applications are relatively concentrated.
Among the categories of goods or services designated by foreign applications in China (including applications for territorial extension of Madrid trademark international registration), the top five categories with the largest number of applications are Category 9 (14,107), Category 35 ( 10882 pieces), Category 25 (9905 pieces), Category 3 (6816 pieces), Category 5 (6488 pieces). On the surface, instruments and equipment, business services, clothing, cosmetics and cleaning products, and medicines are the categories in which foreign applications to China are relatively concentrated.
The top five provinces (cities) in terms of domestic applications are the same as in 2012, followed by Guangdong Province (318,789 applications), Zhejiang Province (178,978 applications), Beijing City (133,510 applications), Jiangsu Province ( 110,097 cases), Shanghai (106,374 cases). The sum of the applications from these five provinces (cities) accounted for 48.91% of the total domestic applications, which was the same as in 2012. The provinces with more than 40,000 applications include Fujian, Shandong, Sichuan, Henan, Chongqing, Hebei, Anhui, Hunan, Shaanxi and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, four more provinces than in 2012.
The five places with the largest increase in applications over the previous year are Shanxi Province (an increase of 39.82% over the previous year), Tibet Autonomous Region (an increase of 37.08% over the previous year), and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (an increase of 37.08% over the previous year). An increase of 28% from the previous year), Anhui Province (an increase of 27.57% from the previous year), and Hebei Province (an increase of 23.99% from the previous year).
The top five provinces (cities) in terms of effective registration volume in China are Guangdong Province (1,126,595 cases), Zhejiang Province (864,161 cases), Beijing City (467,259 cases), Jiangsu Province (459,132 cases), Fujian Province (369,736 cases).
The number of trademark applications in the 12 western provinces reached 257,861, an increase of 13.18% over the previous year.
The top five provinces with the highest number of international registration applications are Guangdong Province (503 applications), Zhejiang Province (409 applications), Shandong Province (233 applications), Jiangsu Province (199 applications) and Fujian Province ( 159 pieces).
The top 10 countries (institutions) or regions with the largest number of foreign applications in China (including applications for territorial extension of Madrid trademark international registration) are the United States (30,875), Japan (16,604), and Germany (10,765) (pieces), the European Union (10,252 pieces), France (9,629 pieces), the United Kingdom (8,627 pieces), South Korea (8,331 pieces), Italy (6,655 pieces), Switzerland (5,485 pieces), and Australia (3,541 pieces). The combined number of applications from these 10 countries or regions accounted for 74.75% of the total number of foreign applications in China.