Trademark applications by residents in OPEC in 2019 — 488,341 filings. Since 2017, the indicator has risen by 22.5%.
2017–2019 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: OPEC
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 488,341 | +87,046 | +21.69% |
| 2018 | 401,295 | +2,573 | +0.65% |
| 2017 | 398,722 | — | — |
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 The World Bank has withdrawn the “direct” series without the class count from publication.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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