Economic performance of IPR indicators 2022 : edition September 2023 update

In May 2021 the EUIPO presented the economic impact of COVID-19 crisis in IPR-intensive industries with data for the period 2003-2020, including indicators (1) for all intellectual property rights (IPR), trade marks (TM), designs (DES), patents (PAT) and copyright (CR). The IPR-intensive industries included in this paper were those established in the third edition of the EPO/EUIPO report "IPR-intensive industries and economic performance in the European Union". In October 2022 EPO and EUIPO presented the fourth edition of the mentioned report with a new selection of IPR-intensive industries. Additionally, in the last two years, more countries publish short-term statistics (STS) indicators which constitute the raw data for the IPR monthly indicators. The 2022 edition of IPR indicators considers the new selection of IPR-intensive industries, new weights for the calculation of indicators as well as all available countries with data since 2019. These new IPR indicators are based on deflated and volume indicators to eliminate the impact of prices using more aggregated data in the manufacturing sector (NACE divisions). The more extensive list of countries balances out the shorter time series allowing the analysis of economic developments since COVID-19 pandemic. The new IPR indicators will be updated every quarter to monitor their economic development, for the European Union (EU) and 21 Member States (MS) with a total of 63 out of 135 possible indicators.