Intellectual property applications at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines increased 3.7 percent to reach a record 48,259 in 2022 from 46,558 in 2021.
This was also up 2 percent up from the previous record of 47,328 in 2019.
“The strong uptake in 2022 IP filings shows how aggressive businesses are in seizing opportunities in the more upbeat economy and the digitalization of business interactions as intensified by the pandemic,” said IPOPHL director-general Rowel Barba in a news briefing Monday.
“More Filipinos are beginning to see the competitive value of having a degree of control over their most prized asset―the products of their minds, their IPs. More businesses and entrepreneurs are integrating IP into their strategies for success not despite the pandemic and other economic and environmental challenges in our midst but because of them,” he said.
Individually, trademark and patent filings and copyright registrations achieved all time-highs.
Trademark applications dominated the 2022 filings, posting growth of 4 percent year-on-year to 41,235 from 39,649. Of this, 25,253 or 61 percent were by residents and 39 percent or 15,982 by non-residents.