Trademark applications by nonresidents in Southern Africa in 2020 — 22,964 filings. Since 2012, the indicator has risen by 10.7%.
2012–2020 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Southern Africa
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 22,964 | −3,948 | −14.67% |
| 2019 | 26,912 | +3,030 | +12.69% |
| 2018 | 23,882 | +2,141 | +9.85% |
| 2017 | 21,741 | −243 | −1.11% |
| 2016 | 21,984 | −91 | −0.41% |
| 2015 | 22,075 | +932 | +4.41% |
| 2014 | 21,143 | +43 | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 21,100 | +363 | +1.75% |
| 2012 | 20,737 | — | — |
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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