{"id":27982,"date":"2024-11-14T12:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T06:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27982"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:34:43","slug":"world-intellectual-property-indicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-intellectual-property-indicators\/","title":{"rendered":"World Intellectual Property Indicators"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About World Intellectual Property Indicators:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The report reveals significant growth in patent, trademark, and industrial design applications across top economies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Highlights of the report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India has secured a spot in the global top 10 for all three major intellectual property (IP) rights\u2014patents, trademarks, and industrial designs.<\/li>\n<li>India recorded the fastest growth in patent (+15.7%) applications in 2023 among the top 20 origins, marking the fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth.<\/li>\n<li>India\u00a0<strong>ranks sixth globally for patents with 64,480 applications<\/strong>, with resident filings accounting for over half of all submissions (55.2%)\u2014a first for the country.<\/li>\n<li>The report indicates\u00a0<strong>a steady rise<\/strong>\u00a0(36.4%) in\u00a0<strong>India\u2019s industrial design applications<\/strong>, which aligns with increasing emphasis on product design, manufacturing, and creative industries within India.<\/li>\n<li>The top three sectors\u2014<strong>Textiles and Accessories, Tools and Machines, and Health and Cosmetics<\/strong>\u2014made up almost half of all design filings,<\/li>\n<li>Between 2018 and 2023, patent and\u00a0<strong>industrial design<\/strong>\u00a0applications\u00a0<strong>more than doubled.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s\u00a0<strong>patent-to-GDP ratio also saw significant growth<\/strong>, rising from 144 to 381 in the past decade, indicating that IP activity is scaling alongside economic expansion.<\/li>\n<li>India ranked\u00a0<strong>fourth globally in trademark filings<\/strong>, with a 6.1% increase in 2023. Nearly 90% of these filings were by residents, with key sectors including Health (21.9%), Agriculture (15.3%), and Clothing (12.8%) leading the way.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s\u00a0<strong>trademark office holds the second-largest number\u00a0<\/strong>of active registrations worldwide, with over 3.2 million trademarks in force, reflecting the country\u2019s strong position in global brand protection.<\/li>\n<li>Key findings show a record of 3.55 million patent applications filed worldwide in 2023, up 2.7% from 2022 with notable contributions from leading economies in Asia. This increase was largely driven by residents in China, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the World Intellectual Property Organization?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a specialized agency of the\u00a0United Nations, located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was established by the WIPO Convention in 1967. Its mission is to lead the development of a balanced and effective international intellectual property (IP) system that enables innovation and creativity for the benefit of all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2072706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0India secures position in top 10 countries in Patents, Trademarks, and Industrial Designs: WIPO 2024 Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Intellectual Property Indicators report reveals significant growth in patent, trademark, and industrial design applications across top economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}