IP Facts and Figures 2024 from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) provides an overview of intellectual property (IP) activity using the latest available year of complete statistics. The figures presented here are drawn from WIPO’s more comprehensive World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024.
IP Facts and Figures serves as a quick reference guide covering five types of industrial property: patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, and geographical indications (GIs). It focuses primarily on application data, the most often used measure of IP activity. Trademark application data refer to class counts – that is, the number of classes specified in applications. This affords a better comparison of international trademark filing activity across IP offices and origins, because some jurisdictions may allow multiple classes of goods and services to be specified in a single application, whereas others require a separate application for each class. For the same reason, industrial design data refer to design counts, that is, the number of designs contained in applications.
Unless otherwise stated, all data refer to activity that occurred in calendar year 2023. Growth means annual growth, that is, the change from 2022 to 2023.
Please note that owing to the continual updating of statistics, data presented in this publication may differ from data previously published, and also from the data available on WIPO’s web pages.
Unlike past editions, this year's publication places more emphasis on origin data as opposed to office data for presenting many of its indicators.Unlike past editions, this year's publication focuses more on origin data than office data when presenting many of its indicators.
For a greater in-depth analysis of WIPO and/or national office IP statistics, please visit the following internet pages:
IP statistics: www.wipo.int/en/web/ip-statistics
World Intellectual Property Indicators: www.wipo.int/wipi
Contact information: Department for Economics and Data Analytics e-mail: ipstats.mail@wipo.int