Trademark applications by nonresidents in Western Europe in 2021 — 130,673 filings. Since 2013, the indicator has risen by 26.6%.
2013–2021 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Western Europe
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 130,673 | +15,006 | +12.97% |
| 2020 | 115,667 | −1,874 | −1.59% |
| 2019 | 117,541 | +2,122 | +1.84% |
| 2018 | 115,419 | +5,685 | +5.18% |
| 2017 | 109,734 | +4,576 | +4.35% |
| 2016 | 105,158 | +2,851 | +2.79% |
| 2015 | 102,307 | +230 | +0.23% |
| 2014 | 102,077 | −1,129 | −1.09% |
| 2013 | 103,206 | — | — |
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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