Asia continues to outpace other regions in filing activity for patents, utility models, trademarks and industrial designs, and accounts for 66.8% of all global patent applications worldwide. Over the last decade, Asia has seen an increase in its share of all applications filed around the world for these four IP rights. Note that North American offices do not offer utility model registration and are therefore not included in the bar for that IP right in the chart opposite.

Source: WIPO Statistics Database, August 2019.