Applications for industrial property registration down 26 pct.

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macaubusinessdaily

Applications filed for registering industrial property in the city amounted to 943 last month, down 25.9 per cent year-on-year, or 21.4 per cent month-on-month, according to the latest statistic released by Macao Economic Services (DSE) yesterday.
In the month, applications for trademark registration accounted for 836 of the total, which decreased by 31.8 per cent year-on-year from 1,225, or down by 26.7 per cent month-on-month from 1,139.
Nevertheless, the government department received 44 applications for registering industrial designs or models in the period, more than twice year-on-year, or 83 per cent month-on-month.
In addition, applications for extending current invention patents increased by more than one time to 44 compared to 24 one year ago. The number also represents a month-on-month increase of 74 per cent from 31 in March.
Six others and three applications were received by DSE for registering invention patents and name and emblem of establishment last month, respectively.
Thus the economic bureau received 4,103 industrial-property applications for the first four months of this year, of which those for registering trademarks amounted to 3,855, followed by 144 applications for extending invention patents and 78 other applications for registering industrial designs or models.
Meanwhile, applications for invention patent, utility patent and name and emblem of establishment totalled 14, 3 and 9 in the four months, respectively, according to DSE.