Statistics for Trademark Applications in 2004



In 2004, the China Trademark Office received totally 588,000 trademark applications, which represents an increase of 30% compared with the applications received in 2003.

Among the trademark applications, 60,335 were filed by foreigners, which represents a yearly increase of 29.82%.

In terms of filing numbers from foreign countries, the ten countries filing the most trademark applications in 2004 are almost the same ten countries in 2003 except that the Netherlands takes 10th position, replacing Singapore. The USA and Japan continues to take the first and the second position with 13,343 and 12,945 applications respectively.


Ten Countries Filed the Most Trademark Applications in China in 2004 & 2003

Rank

Country

Number of Applications in 2004

Number of
Applications in 2003

Change (%)

1

USA

13,343

10,183

31.03

2

Japan

12,945

9,256

39.86

3

Germany

5,953

1,576

277.73

4

France

3,815

1,053

262.30

5

Italy

3,753

890

321.69

6

Korea

2,856

1,662

71.84

7

UK

2,563

1,632

57.05

8

Switzerland

1,963

767

155.93

9

British Virgin Islands

1,424

958

48.64

10

The Netherlands

1,262

291

333.68