{"id":3258,"date":"2024-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abrilabogados.com\/noticias\/the-sensitivity-of-the-eu-trademarks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:30:26","slug":"the-sensitivity-of-the-eu-trademarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrilabogados.com\/en\/noticias\/the-sensitivity-of-the-eu-trademarks\/","title":{"rendered":"The sensitivity of the EU trademarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2596 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abrilabogados.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/euipo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"48\" \/>The EUIPO\u2019s Observatory publishes a study on the dynamics of EU trademark applications in the last twenty years and the impact that the already \u201croutinized\u201d COVID-19 has had in the period 2020-2022. It also aims to determine the trends of trademark applicants from the point of view of the Nice classification. What conclusions does the study show?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Trademark applications filed before the EUIPO as a whole show an increase of 6.1% on average between 2001 and 2022 despite COVID-19, since in 2020 the number of applications filed continued to rise, being the year 2021 the record year for applications, with 198,000. However, a drop of 12 points took place in 2022 compared to the average, probably due to the war in Ukraine and inflation in the Eurozone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Regarding the trends of trademark applicants from the point of view of the Nice classification, an upward growth in service classes was observed in the period 2020-2022. Focused on the 2020-2022 period, the report states that in 2020, only 35% of product classes suffered a slowdown, in contrast to the 70% drop that affected service classes. Logically, in 2020, the classes associated with medical and pharmaceutical products showed the greatest growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">While in 2020 the largest number of applications came from China, in 2021 it was the 27 EU members that submitted the most applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A curious point catches our attention: apparently an event with more devastating (a priori) effects in general terms, such as Covid-19, had a smaller impact on EU trademark applications than it seems to have had (and will it have?) the war in Ukraine and the inflation of the Euro zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The full report here <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/tunnel-web\/secure\/webdav\/guest\/document_library\/observatory\/documents\/reports\/2024_Dynamics_of_trade_mark_filings_COVID\/2024_Dynamics_of_trade_mark_filings_before_and_during_COVID_ExSum_es.pdf\">https:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/tunnel-web\/secure\/webdav\/guest\/document_library\/observatory\/documents\/reports\/2024_Dynamics_of_trade_mark_filings_COVID\/2024_Dynamics_of_trade_mark_filings_before_and_during_COVID_ExSum_es.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Abril Abogados<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EUIPO\u2019s Observatory publishes a study on the dynamics of EU trademark applications in the last twenty years and the impact that the already \u201croutinized\u201d COVID-19 has had in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"sector_noticias":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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