IP NEWS IN JAPAN
JPO Annual Report 2024 Released
The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has released the “JPO Annual Report 2024” on July 29, 2024.
In this report, the following key points are included.
- The number of patent applications recovered to 300,000 for the first time since 2019
- The number of patent applications from foreign countries is on an upward trend
- FA Pendency and Total Pendency for patent examination were reduced to 9.4 months and 13.8 months, respectively
If you are interested, please refer to the following JPO website:
https://www.jpo.go.jp/resources/report/nenji/2024/matome.html (Japanese only)
In addition, we have prepared a document entitled “Japanese IP Trends 2024” which summarizes the main points of this report and “JPO Status Report 2024” released by JPO in March. Please refer to this document.