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07-12-2020
The exponential growth in trademarks and patents filed in the US from China may be partially fuelled by subsidies by the Chinese government, according to a new report released by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
The USPTO stated that the growing number of suspect trademark applications filed in the US from China prompted the office to study the reasons for this development
According to IP data firm Clarivate, the office filed more than 700,000 classes in 2020, compared to 673,233 in 2019. Chinese applicants accounted for 30% of all US trademark applications; in September this soared to 43%.
In 2019, authorities in China received 7.8 million trademark applications and