BPTO Publishes Industrial Property Bulletin with a Statistical Overview of Filings and Grants in 2025

BPTO Publishes Industrial Property Bulletin with a Statistical Overview of Filings and Grants in 2025

Recently, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published its December 2025 Monthly Industrial Property Bulletin, presenting an overview of the year’s key figures in the areas of patents, trademarks, industrial designs, geographical indications, integrated circuit topographies, computer programs, and contracts. The statistical report analyzes, among other data, applications and grants of Industrial Property (IP) rights, as well as figures relating to the countries of origin of the applications and the legal nature of resident applicants.

According to the Bulletin, 2025 recorded an increase in the number of patent applications (+6.7%), totaling 29,557 filings, trademark applications (+7.9%), amounting to 504,461 filings, as well as growth in applications for industrial designs (+35.7%), computer programs (+36.2%), and integrated circuit topographies, with seven applications filed in 2025 compared to six in the previous year. Conversely, there was a reduction in filings for geographical indications, which decreased from 26 applications in 2024 to 20 in 2025, as well as a decline in the recordation of technology transfer agreements (-6.0%).

With respect to grants, the report indicates an upward trend across nearly all areas, particularly for industrial designs. The 2025 figures show a +5.5% increase in patent grants, with 13,624 patents granted, compared to 12,914 grants in 2024. Trademark registrations increased by +6.3%, totaling 176,559 registrations, as opposed to 166,063 trademarks registered in the previous year. Industrial design grants saw a significant rise of +106.6%, reaching 8,456 grants, compared to 4,093 grants in 2024. There was also an increase in registrations of computer programs (+35.1%). In the field of geographical indications, 26 registrations were recorded in 2025, an increase of ten compared to 2024. However, there was a reduction of -9.3% in the recordation of technology transfer agreements and in the granting of integrated circuit topographies, which declined from six in 2024 to five in 2025.

The document also analyzes the profile of applicants by country of origin and legal nature. Unlike in 2023 and 2024, when the United States led filings for invention patents, in 2025 Brazil was the largest filer (26.2%), followed by the United States (23.5%), China (10.5%), Germany (5.2%), Japan (4.2%), and Switzerland (4.1%). With respect to filings for trademarks, industrial designs, and technology transfer agreements, the majority were submitted by Brazilian applicants. For trademarks and industrial designs, domestic filings accounted for 93% and 77% of the total, respectively.

Finally, the Bulletin presented statistics regarding the legal nature of resident applicants. In the field of invention patents, natural persons accounted for 39% of the 7,017 filings made by residents, followed by educational, research, and governmental institutions (24%) and medium- and large-sized enterprises (24%). For utility model patents, natural persons represented 60% of total filings. With respect to trademarks, the largest filers were individual microentrepreneurs (MEIs), microenterprises, and small-sized enterprises (EPPs), accounting for 48%, followed by natural persons (32%) and medium- and large-sized enterprises (17%). For industrial designs, filings were relatively balanced among natural persons (37%), MEIs, microenterprises, and EPPs (31%), and medium- and large-sized enterprises (29%).

The document can be accessed through the following link: Annual Industrial Property Bulletin.

Note: For quick release, this English version is provided by automated translation without human review.