October 2025
IPONZ continues to watch filing volumes closely. We have produced a number of graphs comparing last month’s activity to the month previous, and the same month in the previous year relying on the submission date.
Trade mark filing volumes
This graph of trade mark filing volumes shows the number of classes applied for on national applications was 3228 in the month of October, down from 3600 in the month earlier, compared with 2787 in the same month in last year. The number of classes applied for on international applications designating New Zealand was 1919 in the month of October, up from 1643 in the month earlier, compared with 2196 in the same month last year. .
Trade mark filing volumes (New Zealand applicants)
This graph of trade mark filing volumes applied for by New Zealanders shows the number of classes applied for was 2351 in the month of October, down from 2486 in the month earlier, compared with 1673 in the same month in last year.
Patent filing volumes
This graph of patent filing volumes shows the number of international applications received via the national phase of the Patent Cooperaton Treaty (PCT) was 385 in the month of October, up from 355 in the month earlier, compared with 331 in the same month in last year. The number complete applications submitted was 144 in the month of October, up from 122 in the month earlier, compared with 123 in the same month last year.
The number of requests to examine patent applications received in the month of October was 427, up from 414 in the month earlier, compared with 434 in the same month in last year.
Patent filing volumes (New Zealand applicants)
This graph of patent filing volumes applied for by New Zealanders shows that the number of complete patent applications applied for was 27 in the month of October, up from 21 in the month earlier, compared with 20 in the same month in last year.
Designs filing volumes
This graph of designs filing volumes shows that the number of designs applied for was 166 in the month of October, up from 127 in the month earlier, compared with 191 in the same month in last year.
Designs filing volumes (New Zealand applicants)
This graph of design filing volumes applied for by New Zealanders shows that the number of design applications applied for was 27 in the month of October, down from 29 in the month earlier, compared with 27 in the same month in last year.
Plant variety rights volumes
This graph of plant variety rights filing volumes shows that the number applied for was 17 in the period of three months to October, down from 22 in the three months prior to that, compared with 19 in the same three month period last year.
Application volumes - raw data
Application volumes for patents, trade marks, designs and plant variety rights since 2014 are available for download in the data sets below.
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Our data is also available via MBIE’s API services. The World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Brands Database uses services like these for overnight updates to the New Zealand trade marks register data it uses.