Russia is also on top in “Equivalent applications by origin” but in “PCT international applications” and “PCT national applications” category Russia is after Canada. Canada is after Russia in Total application with 36,161 in comparison to Russia with 37,957. Canada’s performance in the category of ‘Non-resident, PCT international applications and PCT national applications’ is very much better.  Other countries in the region also do very good but very far from Russia and Canada especially in Total.   In the category ‘Equivalent applications by origin total (a)’ Sweden   filed the application more than Canada. In PCT international applications (origin) and PCT national phase entry (origin) Sweden lead with a big margin in compression of other countries. Other countries like Denmark, Finland and Norway also did better in category of ‘PCT international applications (origin) and PCT national phase entry (origin)’ ^[1].

Table 1. Patent applications by office and origin, 2018

Source: Based on Wold World Intellectual Property Indicators 2019

In patents grant performance Russian and Norway’s performance is excellent in compression of other Russian success percentages is 94.24% while Norway secured 92.47% of total registered applications.  Tough Canada filled the application near to Russia but its success rate is very low with 64.98%.  Denmark's position is lowest with   14.12%. Russia is also in top position in terms of total patents forced with 256,419 patents.  Canada and Sweden are on number 2 and 3 with 184,559 and 100,974 patents respectively (Table 2).

Intellectual Property (Patents Grant) Performance

Table 2. Patent grant by office and origin, 2018 (total/granted)

Source: Based on Wold World Intellectual Property Indicators 2019

Trademark Patents

Trademark  is the symbol of a company or industrial house ,  as the business grow or confidence of people grow in company  the value of trademark also grow. It also shows the success of a nation as well.  In arctic region or countries Russia is top country in trademark patent applications.  According to 2018 data of ‘World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)’ Russia applied for total 263,552 trademark patents while Canada applied for 187,642. Norway also performs well with 45,288 applications (Table 3).

Table 3. Trademark applications by office and origin, 2018

Source: Based on Wold World Intellectual Property Indicators 2019

In process of application Russia got the 61, 355 applications processed and got the registration of 54,342 applications which are highest in the region with 88.56% of success rate.  Out of 43760 application, Canada got registration for 24,376 application with is 55.70% of success rate. Other Arctic countries also performed well with high percentages.  Russia’s performance in Withdrawn or abandoned is also very excellent, only 483 Russian applications were Withdrawn or abandoned, while Canada’s 19,335 applications were Withdrawn or abandoned. But Russia is also on top in Total rejection with 6530 application totally rejected is very poor outcome in comparison of other, especially in comparison of Canada which is only 52 application were total rejected. Canada’s 163.218 applications are in pending while Russia’s pending applications are 35,917 (Table 4)

Table 4. Trademark office procedural

Source: Based on Wold World Intellectual Property Indicators 2019

Because Russia was leading in total application numbers and processed application therefor Russia got the highest number of trademark with 189,127 numbers of registrations.  Canada also got 62,049 trademark registrations. But Canada’s performance in non-resident registration is very high with 48.89 % of total trademark registrations while Russia’s non-resident registration percentage is 32.87%.  According 2018 data Russia is on top in Arctic region with 623,712 of total trademark in force while there are 581,561 registered trademarks in force in Canada.  Other Arctic countries especially Norway and Sweden also performed fine (Table 5).

Trademark registrations

Table 5. Trademark registrations by office and origin, and trademarks in force, 2018

Source: Based on Wold World Intellectual Property Indicators 2019

Industrial Design

Industrial design gives a product a unique identity (in compression of other product) because of physical appearance, functionality and manufacturability.  It also shows indicate how an industrial design   is different in design and competent with different industrial product.  In Industrial Design application Russia is on top with 8,943 applications with 3,822 resident and 5,121 non-resident applications, while Canada applied for 6,818 industrial design applications, but Canada’s performance in non-residents is excellent with 6044 application and only 774 resident application. Norway also performed very well with 4,201 application with 3,646 non-resident and 555 resident applications (Table 6).

Table 6. Industrial design applications

Source: Based on Wold World Intellectual Property Indicators 2019

Table 7. Industrial design registrations

Source: Based on Wold World Intellectual Property Indicators 2019

In Industrial Design registration also Russia is on top with 8,540 registrations with 5,256 non-resident and 3,284 resident registrations but Russia is on second number in Industrial design  ‘In force by office’  with 35,898 industrial design in force.  Canada got the registration on 5,136 industrial designs with 4,480 non-resident registrations. Though in “Registration design count by office in 2019” Canada is number two after Russia but in “Industrial Design In force by office” is number one with 42,277 industrial designs.  Other Arctic countries Norway and Sweden also perform well (Table 7).

In Intellectual property “Patents, Trademark and Industrial Design” Russia’s performance is very good with competitive with Canada.  It indicate that Russia has quality education, infrastructure and other institutions to compete in intellectual property area but its performance in ‘non-resident’ category is low in comparison of ‘resident’ category. Canada’s performance is also back to back with Russia and its performance in non-resident category very good in comparison of Russia. Other Arctic countries also perform well especially in non-resident category. Russia needs to more focus on performance in ‘non-resident category’ because it will give him a global recognition and reputation.

Javed Zafar, international expert, New Delhi, India

[1] (a)Equivalent applications by origin data are incomplete because some offices do not report by origin.

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