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Intellectual Property Office Publishes Five-Year Statistics on Revoked Administrative Decisions
In the Patent Examination Quality Advisory Committee held on 12 May 2021, the Intellectual Property Office ("IPO") published case statistics on administrative remedy for patent cases, including revocation of administrative decisions. The data are summarized as follows.
2016-2020 Case Statistics Table: IPO’s Administrative Decisions Revoked in a Patent Administrative Judgement by the IP Court
(Reference: Meeting Material Distributed at the Patent Examination Quality Advisory Committee on 12 May 2021)
|
Year |
Lodged Administrative Lawsuits |
Closed Administrative Lawsuits |
Revoked Cases |
Revocation Rate |
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Completely Revoked |
Partially Revoked |
Subtotal |
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2016 |
104 |
107 |
14 |
12 |
26 |
24.30% |
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2017 |
103 |
98 |
15 |
11 |
26 |
26.53% |
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2018 |
103 |
112 |
18 |
8 |
26 |
23.21% |
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2019 |
95 |
107 |
22 |
3 |
25 |
23.36% |
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2020 |
67 |
76 |
13 |
7 |
20 |
26.32% |
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As indicated above, there was a reduction in the number of administrative lawsuits to the IP Court in 2020 to 67 cases, but the revocation rate remained around 26.32%; whereas in the same year the revocation rate for administrative appeals handled by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA, the supervisory government agency of the IPO) was only 2.38%.