76.4% percentage of patents granted to Egyptians by Egyptian Patent Office in 2022

Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) issued today , a press release on the occasion of the World intellectual property day, where the world celebrates it on 26 April annually ,which was adopted by the member States of the word intellectual property organization (WIPO) in 2000 to enhance public awareness of value of intellectual property and celebrate the innovators and creators contributions to development of societies 2023 under the slogan " Women and intellectual property – accelerating innovation and creativity"

Global indicators:

- Number of international submitted patents increased according to cooperation which managed by (WIPO) organization by 0.3% in 2022 reaches to )278100( application.

Most important local indicators are as follows:

• Trademarks:

- Number of applications submitted for trademarks reached )30423( in 2022, compared to )36955( applications in 2021, a decrease by17.7%.

- Number of applications presented to Egyptian trademark office by Egyptians to obtain trademarks reached )25713( applications in 2022, compared to )28448( applications of total patents in 2021, a decrease by 9.6%.

- Number of granted trademarks reached (11869) trademarks in 2022 ,Egypt (9070), other countries (2799), compared to (10997) trademarks in 2021, an increase by 7.9%.

-Egypt occupied the first rank in trademarks granted by Egyptian trademarks office as it reached )9070( trademarks by 76.4% followed by U.S.A )888 ( trademarks by

7.5 % then U.A.E )299 (trademarks by 2.5 % of the total granted trademarks in 2022.