Trademark applications by residents in Europe & Central Asia in 2021 — 2,036,036 filings. Since 2004, the indicator has risen by 154.5%.
2004–2021 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Europe & Central Asia
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2.04M | −185,820 | −8.36% |
| 2020 | 2.22M | +245,668 | +12.43% |
| 2019 | 1.98M | +110,169 | +5.9% |
| 2018 | 1.87M | +23,137 | +1.26% |
| 2017 | 1.84M | +77,654 | +4.4% |
| 2016 | 1.77M | +146,710 | +9.06% |
| 2015 | 1.62M | −37,262 | −2.25% |
| 2014 | 1.66M | −26,956 | −1.6% |
| 2013 | 1.68M | +326,063 | +24.03% |
| 2012 | 1.36M | +82,579 | +6.48% |
| 2011 | 1.27M | +154,900 | +13.84% |
| 2010 | 1.12M | +23,949 | +2.19% |
| 2009 | 1.1M | −82,117 | −6.97% |
| 2008 | 1.18M | +98,080 | +9.09% |
| 2007 | 1.08M | +148,013 | +15.89% |
| 2006 | 931,269 | +86,982 | +10.3% |
| 2005 | 844,287 | +44,272 | +5.53% |
| 2004 | 800,015 | — | — |
Applications to register a trademark filed by residents of a country with its intellectual property office, counted by classes of goods and services. A trademark is a sign that distinguishes the goods of one enterprise from those of others, and unlike a patent it speaks not of an invention but of the market entry of a new product or brand. The series therefore behaves differently from the patent one: it responds to business activity quickly, grows along with the number of small enterprises and falls noticeably in crisis years.
Important: What is counted is not applications but the classes of goods within them: one application covering five classes counts as five. The class count is needed for comparability — some offices accept an application for a single class, others for several at once. The World Bank has withdrawn the “direct” series without the class count from publication.
Source: IP Statistics (WIPO), license CC BY 3.0 IGO.
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