The office of China’s class count of almost 7.4 million ranked first followed by a count of 640,181 at the office of the U.S. These have been the top two offices since the early 2000s, but from 2007 onwards China’s class count has grown from almost twice that of the U.S. to over 11 times as many. These two offices were followed by those of Japan (512,156), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (392,925) and the Islamic Republic of Iran (384,338). Among the top 10 offices, China (+28.3%), India (+20.9%) and the Republic of Korea (+14.5%) recorded very high growth compared to 2017. In contrast, the offices of Japan, the Russian Federation and Turkey each saw a decline in filing activity.

Source: WIPO Statistics Database, August 2019.