Trademark applications by nonresidents in upper-middle-income countries in 2021 — 736,014 filings. Since 2016, the indicator has risen by 40.3%.
2016–2021 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Upper-middle-income countries
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 736,014 | +80,510 | +12.28% |
| 2020 | 655,504 | −32,969 | −4.79% |
| 2019 | 688,473 | +5,682 | +0.83% |
| 2018 | 682,791 | +129,597 | +23.43% |
| 2017 | 553,194 | +28,664 | +5.46% |
| 2016 | 524,530 | — | — |
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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