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 No 10 Australia
Number: 28,906
Growth: 1.8 percent

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 No 9 Canada
Number: 35,022
Growth: 0.8 percent

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 No 8 Russian Federation
Number: 36,883
Growth: -11.3 percent

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 No 7 India
Number: 46,582
Growth: 3.4 percent

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 No 6 Germany
Number: 67,712
Growth: -0.3 percent

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 No 5 The European Patent Office
Number: 166,585
Growth: 4.5 percent

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 No 4 The Republic of Korea
Number: 204,775
Growth: -1.9 percent

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 No 3 Japan
Number: 318,479
Growth: 0.03 percent

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 No 2 United States
Number: 606,956
Growth: 0.2 percent

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 No 1 China
Number: 1.38 million
Growth: 14.2 percent

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 China ranked first for global application volume of
patents, trademarks and industrial designs last year
according to World Intellectual Property Indicators
2018 released by the World Intellectual Property
Organization on Dec 3.

In 2017, China's IP office received a record-high patent

applications, which stood at 1.38 million, followed by
its counterparts in the United States (606,956), Japan
(318,479), South Korea (204,775) and the European
Patent Office (166,585).

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 Patents must:
1. Be new. It must not have been shown or
discussed publicly anywhere prior to the
patent application being filed.

2. Involve an inventive step. The idea must not

be obvious to someone with reasonable prior
knowledge of the subject.

3. Be capable of being industrially made. It

must take the physical form of substance,
product or industrial process.

4. Not be excluded. An invention is not

patentable if it is on the physical list issued
by the Patent Office.
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 Case Study

Dyson Vs. Hoover

In 2000, James Dyson, famously took
Hoover to court over infringements
of his 1980 patent of bagless vacuum
cleaner using cyclones. At the time,
Hoover was manufacturing a Triple
Vs. Vortex bagless cleaner, using the
same cyclone invention. Dyson had
put everything he had into paying for
legal action. He eventually won the
case and with the proceeds was able
to set up his own UK factory to build
the DC01.

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 Case Study

Ford Motor Company – Heated Front Windscreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmpROemcd4E

Ford owned the patent for the heated front screen (HFS). For
Ford this technology has proven to be a unique selling
point which makes customers buy a new ford every time.
Ford had allowed Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo to use it on
their cars however this was only when these three
companies were part of Ford Motor Group.

In 2010 Fords 20 year long patent expired and the technology

ended up being used on the BMW made MINI. This heated
front screen technology was soon re-patented by Ford.
Unfortunate for Ford due to the length of the legal process
Vs. BMW managed to add it to their current generation of Mini
Coopers however BMW as a whole did not have sufficient
time to get it onto their 3,5 or 7 series cars. Ford are now
the holders of the new patent but Mini will be allowed to
use this technology until they stop building this current
model of Mini.

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PATENTS new developments in india
• As on date, India is fully in compliance with its international
obligations under the TRIPs Agreement.
• The Patents Act 1970 has undergone three amendments –
1999, 2002 & 2005.
• The III Amendment in 2005 has major implications on the
following:
– Introduction of product patent protection for food, pharmaceutical and
chemical inventions.
– Examination The “mail box” applications, from January 01, 2005

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 PATENTS FILED IN INDIA

30000

25000 24415
20000
17466
Nos

15000
11466 12613
10000 10592
8503
5000 4824
0
99-2000 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 -
2001 02 03 04 05 06

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 DESIGN IPRs filed in India

5000
4500
4000
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
99- 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 -
2000 2001 02 03 04 05 06
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 Trademark applications filed in India

100000
90000
80000
70000
60000
50000
40000
30000
20000
10000
0
99- 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 -
2000 2001 02 03 04 05 06
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