Trademark applications by nonresidents in South Africa in 2021 — 14,077 filings. Ranked 36 in the world out of 123. Since 2004, the indicator has risen by 59.2%.
2004–2021 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: South Africa
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14,077 | −142 | −1% |
| 2020 | 14,219 | −1,569 | −9.94% |
| 2019 | 15,788 | −32 | −0.2% |
| 2018 | 15,820 | +483 | +3.15% |
| 2017 | 15,337 | +225 | +1.49% |
| 2016 | 15,112 | −214 | −1.4% |
| 2015 | 15,326 | +383 | +2.56% |
| 2014 | 14,943 | −256 | −1.68% |
| 2013 | 15,199 | +1,094 | +7.76% |
| 2012 | 14,105 | +143 | +1.02% |
| 2011 | 13,962 | +1,453 | +11.62% |
| 2010 | 12,509 | +2,022 | +19.28% |
| 2009 | 10,487 | −3,388 | −24.42% |
| 2008 | 13,875 | −4,046 | −22.58% |
| 2007 | 17,921 | +6,143 | +52.16% |
| 2006 | 11,778 | +928 | +8.55% |
| 2005 | 10,850 | +2,006 | +22.68% |
| 2004 | 8,844 | — | — |
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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