International trademark activity remained robust overall in 2008 with WIPO receiving a record 42,075 applications under the Madrid system for the international registration of trademarks, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on March 10.  China ranked eighth with 1,585 while a company broke into the top 10 ranking for the first time. 

Users in Germany filed the most prolific 6,214 international applications representing 14.8% of the total. Applicants in France accounted for 10% of the total filing 4,218 international applications.  Businesses in the United States of America (USA) filed the third largest number of applications - 3,684 or 8,8% of the total number.  In 2008, a Chinese firm, Zheijiang Medicine Company, ranking 8th, broke into the top 10 ranking for the first time.

(China IP News)