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On January 1, 2011 the Rule 18ter(1) of the Common Regulations under the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks and the Protocol Relating to that Agreement stating that national Offices shall be obliged to send to the International Bureau a statement to the effect that protection is granted to the mark entered into the force.

During 2011 the Office received 3,107 trademark applications, what represents increase by 4.4 per cent when compared with the previous year.

When compared with 2010, the number of domestic trademark applications increased by 4.2 per cent to 2,333.

In 2011, 2,032 international trademark applications were filed under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement. It represents decrease by 5.7 per cent when compared with 2010.

Total number of registered national trademarks increased by 0.4 per cent to 2,309.

The number of domestic registered trademarks increased by 3.0 per cent (1,712), the number of trademarks registered for foreign applicants decreased by 6.3 per cent to 597.

On December 31, 2011 there were 49.395 valid trademarks registered in the Office register.

For comparison, there is the statistics on trademark applications and registrations of the years 2005 - 2011.

Trademarkstatistics_2011.doc

URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to trademarks

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