TM filings slide in EU, UK and US amid COVID-19 outbreak
Trademark filings at some of the world’s biggest IP offices have begun to fall, despite showing resilience late last week amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) saw record high numbers of applications filed in the first week of March, but the situation has changed as IP offices start to feel the impact of the pandemic.
“Up until around two weeks ago, it looked like business as normal at the trademark registers. In a normal year, you have a bigger year than the last and that’s exactly how this year started out,” says Robert Reading, London-based director of government and content strategy, IP group, at CompuMark, a Clarivate Analytics unit.
From stable growth to a slide
