Hearings and Mediation Statistics

Trade Marks

Number of Trade Mark Oppositions/Invalidations/Revocations/Rectifications Filed

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
No. of Trade Mark Oppositions	244	275	201	309	253	217	169
Percentage of Trade Mark Oppositions to Trade Marks Published	1.2%	1.2%	0.7%	1.1%	0.85%	0.74%	0.74%
No. of Trade Mark Invalidations/Revocations/Rectifications	23	19	13	17	37	40	39

Number of Hearings/Mediation Conducted (2001 - 2008)

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Pre-hearing Reviews	19	49	69	73	55	65	98	93
Interlocutory Hearings	23	29	16	13	20	10	12	11
Full Hearings	15	6	15	17	30	18	19	19
Case Management Conferences	0	9	11	20	2	4	5	101

Number of Hearings/Mediation Conducted (2009 onwards)

	2009	2010
Case Management Conferences	99	93
Pre-hearing Reviews	86	69
Ex-Parte Hearings	2	5
Inter-Partes Hearings	17	17
Interlocutory Hearings	7	5
Taxation Hearings	3	7

Patents

Number of Patent Revocations Filed

Year
No. of Patent Revocation Applications Filed

2010 1

2009

11

2008

1

2007

0

2006

2

2005

1

2004

2

2003 1

2002 0

2001 1

Number of Hearings/Mediation Conducted (2009 onwards)

	2009	2010
Pre-hearing Reviews	1	0
Ex-Parte Hearings	6	3
Inter-Partes Hearings	2	0
Case Management Conferences	2	0
Interlocutory Hearings	0	16

Designs

Number of Designs Revocations Filed

Year	No. of Designs Revocations
2010	4
2009	0
2008	1
2007	1
2006	0
2005	0
2004	0
2003	0

Number of Hearings/Mediation Conducted

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Pre-hearing Reviews	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Case Management Conferences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3