Trademark applications by residents in Southern Africa in 2020 — 23,168 filings. Since 2012, the indicator has risen by 8.5%.
2012–2020 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Southern Africa
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 23,168 | +477 | +2.1% |
| 2019 | 22,691 | −2,585 | −10.23% |
| 2018 | 25,276 | −992 | −3.78% |
| 2017 | 26,268 | +2,334 | +9.75% |
| 2016 | 23,934 | +314 | +1.33% |
| 2015 | 23,620 | +2,422 | +11.43% |
| 2014 | 21,198 | −363 | −1.68% |
| 2013 | 21,561 | +212 | +0.99% |
| 2012 | 21,349 | — | — |
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 The World Bank has withdrawn the “direct” series without the class count from publication.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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