Recently, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released the World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report, according to which:
In 2024, global patenting activity grew for the fifth consecutive year, up 4.9%. A substantial rise in patent filings by residents of China, India, the Republic of Korea, and Japan was the main driver of global growth in 2024.
Global industrial design filings rose by 2.2% to 1.6 million designs, with seven of the top 20 countries seeing double-digit growth. With 906,849 design applications filed, applicants residing in China were the most active worldwide. They were followed by applicants from Germany (70,212 applications), the United States (66,855 applications), Italy (63,668 applications), and the Republic of Korea (60,109 applications). The top five origins collectively accounted for nearly three-quarters (74.9%) of the global activity in 2024.
After two years of slowdown, global trademark applications show signs of recovery and remain substantially stable by the end of the year. The highest volume of filing activity came from applicants based in China with a combined domestic and abroad application class count of around 7.3 million, followed by applicants from the United States (836,457 applications), the Russian Federation (559,436 applications), India (532,900 applications), and Brazil (436,291 applications).
(Source: WIPO China)