Trademark applications by residents in Middle East & North Africa in 2021 — 636,670 filings. Since 2004, the indicator has risen by 5,172.2%.
2004–2021 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Middle East & North Africa
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 636,670 | +21,873 | +3.56% |
| 2020 | 614,797 | +65,230 | +11.87% |
| 2019 | 549,567 | +93,775 | +20.57% |
| 2018 | 455,792 | +25,030 | +5.81% |
| 2017 | 430,762 | +195,800 | +83.33% |
| 2016 | 234,962 | +164,058 | +231.38% |
| 2015 | 70,904 | +21,778 | +44.33% |
| 2014 | 49,126 | +10,821 | +28.25% |
| 2013 | 38,305 | −1,806 | −4.5% |
| 2012 | 40,111 | +14,084 | +54.11% |
| 2011 | 26,027 | −11,459 | −30.57% |
| 2010 | 37,486 | +23,690 | +171.72% |
| 2009 | 13,796 | −3,331 | −19.45% |
| 2008 | 17,127 | −4,548 | −20.98% |
| 2007 | 21,675 | +1,978 | +10.04% |
| 2006 | 19,697 | +4,838 | +32.56% |
| 2005 | 14,859 | +2,783 | +23.05% |
| 2004 | 12,076 | — | — |
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 The World Bank has withdrawn the “direct” series without the class count from publication.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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