According to “JPO Status Report 2025” released on March 24, 2025, by the Japan Patent Office (JPO), a total of 158,792 trademark applications were filed in 2024. This number decreased 3.2% compared to the previous year when the number of applications amounted to 164,061.
Pfizer Inc. remains a top-ranking foreign registrant for the fifth year in a row. NEOPLE Inc, a Korean video game developer, was ranked in 8th (47 registrations) in 2024, a drastic increase from the previous year, when it was ranked in 2559th.
Requests for accelerated examination increased to 8,138 by 8.0% in 2024, which enables applicants to obtain trademark registration within 2 months.
As a background, it should be noted that the entire trademark process for general examination at the JPO (the total time of application from filing to registration) takes 7.3 months on average, which gets 0.4 months longer than the previous year.
You can access and download the full text of “JPO Status Report 2025” from here.