Trademark applications by residents in Eastern Asia in 2021 — 9,814,654 filings. Since 2004, the indicator has risen by 1,381.3%.
2004–2021 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Eastern Asia
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9.81M | +40,478 | +0.41% |
| 2020 | 9.77M | +1.45M | +17.4% |
| 2019 | 8.33M | +508,858 | +6.51% |
| 2018 | 7.82M | +1.56M | +24.92% |
| 2017 | 6.26M | +2.12M | +51.23% |
| 2016 | 4.14M | +918,733 | +28.54% |
| 2015 | 3.22M | +687,185 | +27.14% |
| 2014 | 2.53M | +450,512 | +21.65% |
| 2013 | 2.08M | — | — |
| 2010 | 1.13M | +232,464 | +25.97% |
| 2009 | 894,955 | — | — |
| 2006 | 821,068 | — | — |
| 2004 | 662,588 | — | — |
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 The World Bank has withdrawn the “direct” series without the class count from publication.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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