Japan's growing IP activity in SE Asia

Analysis of Japan's IP investment in SE Asia provides some interesting insights. The numbers below come from a mix of 2011 and 2012 data.

Japanese patent applications in ASEAN:
	Japan	Total
Philippines	494	3389	15%
Malaysia	1160	7027	17%
Thailand	2584	6746	38%
Singapore	1427	9685	15%
Indonesia	1202	6130	20%
Vietnam	894	3995	22%
Japanese Trademarks in ASEAN:
	Japan	Total
Malaysia	2880	31876	9%
Thailand	3395	44963	8%
Singapore	3873	36801	11%
Vietnam	1101	33494	3%

Some thoughts on this :

• Japan's investment in ASEAN is rapidly rising and it sees Patents as key to its investments
• In Thailand it is by far the largest single country user of the patent system
• Its filings in Indonesia continue to rise fast (tracking its growing investments there)
• The lower trademarks %s indicate Japan's consumer goods and services are less dominant than its industrial ones
• But the more developed the market the more TMs they file (presumably tracking increased goods/services sales).