Trademark applications by nonresidents in Middle East & North Africa in 2021 — 149,156 filings. Since 2004, the indicator has risen by 565.4%.
2004–2021 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Middle East & North Africa
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 149,156 | +44,246 | +42.18% |
| 2020 | 104,910 | −28,118 | −21.14% |
| 2019 | 133,028 | −25,309 | −15.98% |
| 2018 | 158,337 | −638 | −0.4% |
| 2017 | 158,975 | +59,495 | +59.81% |
| 2016 | 99,480 | −2,077 | −2.05% |
| 2015 | 101,557 | +14,090 | +16.11% |
| 2014 | 87,467 | +6,605 | +8.17% |
| 2013 | 80,862 | +2,509 | +3.2% |
| 2012 | 78,353 | +11,122 | +16.54% |
| 2011 | 67,231 | +27,651 | +69.86% |
| 2010 | 39,580 | +12,371 | +45.47% |
| 2009 | 27,209 | −2,761 | −9.21% |
| 2008 | 29,970 | −7,095 | −19.14% |
| 2007 | 37,065 | +5,600 | +17.8% |
| 2006 | 31,465 | +6,740 | +27.26% |
| 2005 | 24,725 | +2,308 | +10.3% |
| 2004 | 22,417 | — | — |
Applications to register a trademark filed in a country by nonresident applicants, counted by classes. As with patents, the indicator measures not the activity of the country itself but the appeal of its market: a mark is protected only where it is registered, so foreign companies register where they intend to sell. But the ratio to applications by residents works differently here than with patents: even countries that are not wealthy file many trademark applications of their own, because a small enterprise registers a brand too, while it has no inventions to patent.
Important: The classes of goods within applications are counted, not the applications themselves. The count includes marks received by an office through the Madrid System — the World Bank has no separate series for it.
Source: IP Statistics (WIPO), license CC BY 3.0 IGO.
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