(26 April 2016) – 89 420 applications for trade mark protection were received in 2015 by the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) from the Member States of the EU, a number about 4 times higher that of the mid-1990s. Germany was first among Member States, Paris among EU regions.
Applications made in 2015 from EU Member States accounted for nearly 70% of all applications made in the EUIPO that year, which totalled 130 385 applications. The highest number of TM applications made to the EUIPO from outside the EU came by far from the United States (16 881), ahead of China (4 153), Switzerland (3 997), Japan (2 593) and South Korea (2 038).
Across the EU, Germany (20 447 applications, or 23% of EU total) was the first Member State in terms of applications for TM protection in 2015, followed at a distance by the United Kingdom (12 527, or 14%), Italy (9 941, or 11%), Spain (9 406, or 11%), France (7 907, or 9%), the Netherlands (4 534, or 5%) and Poland (3 665, or 4%).
After Paris in France (2 083 TM applications made), the leading regions in the ranking of applications to the EUIPO for trade mark protection in 2014 were Barcelona (2 022 applications) and Madrid (1 843) in Spain, Milan (1 484) in Italy, Berlin (1 275) in Germany and Luxembourg (1 253).