New Data: Trade Marks and Patents

Addition of trade marks and patents data, which provides an estimate on the number of currently active trade marks and patents that have been effective from each year between 2000 and 2020.

New Data: Trade Marks and Patents

Friday, 1 October 2021

Addition of trade marks and patents data, which provides an estimate on the number of currently active trade marks and patents that have been effective from each year between 2000 and 2020.

A trade mark can be a letter, number, word, phrase, sound, smell, shape, logo, picture, aspect of packaging or any combination of these, which is used to distinguish goods and services of one trader from those of another. This dataset records the number of currently active trade marks that have been effective from each year between 2000 and 2020.

A patent is an IP right granted for any device, substance, method or process that is new, inventive and useful. This dataset records the number of currently active patents that have been effective from each year between 2002 and 2020.

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