Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Office announced that the accepted trademark applications on 2016, a total of 70,903 applications, increase 1% compared to the applications last year. In term of the countries of these applicants, China has 4281 cases ranking in the first place with an increase of 9%. The office pointed out that a growth trend shown in 2016 trademark application result, though, of which the proportion of domestic applications account for 73% of all applications, no significant change compared with past years. With the increasing demand on games, mobile phones and other handheld devices in the past few years, the trademark applications for the related hardware and software have increased significantly. The United States and Japan, respectively, ranked No. 2, No. 3, 2016, and the numbers of patent applications were 3735 and 3669.