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Record demand at the UK IPO
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Richard Goddard, CITMA President
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Trade marks filed, including domestic trade mark applications and international (Madrid) registrations (excluding additional classes). Designs include domestic design applications and international (Hague) registrations
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compared with just 8,000 in the same period last year. In April 2021 alone, 6,794 design applications were filed, which is a record high. The data shows that in February 2021 the number of international trade mark applications designating the UK surged past 2,000 for the first time (2,014 designations). March and April also saw more than 2,000 designations apiece.
ome 70,000 UK trade mark applications were filed between January and April this year – up from around 37,000 for the same period in both 2019 and 2020 – according to data published by the UK IPO. The picture is similar for UK registered design applications, of which there were some 23,000 filed in the first four months of 2021,
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s you will be aware, the demand for UK trade marks and designs has reached unprecedented levels since the turn of the year. It is great to see the number of domestic filings pick up in this way, and we will be helping provide analysis of the impact this has on case law and practice through this magazine and online. We are continuing to raise important matters with the UK IPO regarding post-Brexit trade marks and designs. I hope our most recent Q&A provides clarity on a number of the issues you have been raising. If you have anything else you would like us to raise with the UK IPO on your behalf, please let us know. There are also plenty of other ways we are supporting you and all our members. We have just set up a new forum so we can better understand what we can do to support sole practitioners and small firms. If you fall into this category, I would encourage you to speak to the CITMA team about joining the group. As we report in this issue, we’ve taken the decision to postpone our Christmas lunches, both in London and the north of England. It was a tough call, but given the amount of planning required and the uncertainty that remains around large events, it was right not to go ahead with something that we could not guarantee would meet your expectations. We are already planning for December 2022, when it will be fantastic to be back together. Our Autumn Conference, though, will be going ahead – and preparations for it are already at an advanced stage, with a new virtual platform in place. Keep an eye out for further announcements about what is sure to be an insightful and enjoyable conference.
Source: UK IPO (May 2021)
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