The Macao Economic Services (DSE) received 795 applications for intellectual property rights in the city in May, down 15.7 per cent compared to the month before, the latest official data released yesterday by the Bureau shows. On a year-on-year comparison, the number of applications filed for intellectual property rights in the Special Administrative Region fell by 15.3 per cent from some 939 applications received for the same month of 2015. During the month, most of the applications were filed for registering trademarks in the territory, which amounted to 729, or 92 per cent of the total. The number, compared to 836 one month ago and 892 one year ago, means drops of 12.8 per cent and 18.3 per cent, respectively. Meanwhile, there were 45 applications for extending current invention patents throughout last month, which accounted for 6 per cent of the total. The total number decreased by 16.7 per cent month-on-month, but increased by 73 per cent year-on-year. On the other hand, the economic department received nine applications registering invention patents and seven other applications for industrial designs or models in the city last month. Only two applications were filed for utility patent registration, and three for registering the name and emblem of an establishment. Accumulatively, DSE received a total of 4,898 applications for intellectual property rights for the first five months of this year, of which those registering trademarks accounted for 93.5 per cent of the total – at 4,584 – followed by applications for extension of invention patent amounting to 189 throughout the months.
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