Trademark applications by residents in Central America in 2021 — 162,848 filings. Since 2004, the indicator has risen by 243.9%.
2004–2021 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Central America
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 162,848 | +25,720 | +18.76% |
| 2020 | 137,128 | +3,169 | +2.37% |
| 2019 | 133,959 | +5,778 | +4.51% |
| 2018 | 128,181 | +65 | +0.05% |
| 2017 | 128,116 | +11,676 | +10.03% |
| 2016 | 116,440 | +8,098 | +7.47% |
| 2015 | 108,342 | — | — |
| 2007 | 73,515 | +10,131 | +15.98% |
| 2006 | 63,384 | +5,728 | +9.93% |
| 2005 | 57,656 | +10,296 | +21.74% |
| 2004 | 47,360 | — | — |
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 The World Bank has withdrawn the “direct” series without the class count from publication.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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