EU Trade Mark Applications Continue To Increase Year On Year

The European Union's statistical office, Eurostat, has issued a press release setting out the detail of the number of EU trade mark (EUTM) applications received in 2015.

Whilst, unsurprisingly, 70% of the 130,385 applications came from EU Member States, on a country by country basis, the number of applications made from the US (16,881) came second only to Germany (20,447). The UK sat in third place overall, with 12,527 applications made in 2015.

Italy, Spain and France were also high up in the rankings of Member States. Aside from the US, the largest amount of applications from non-EU countries came from China, Switzerland Japan and South Korea, which all numbered in the thousands.