Trademark applications by residents in the United Kingdom in 2021 — 223,508 filings. Ranked 12 in the world out of 122. Since 2004, the indicator has risen by 318.8%.
2004–2021 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: United Kingdom
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 223,508 | +37,687 | +20.28% |
| 2020 | 185,821 | +43,380 | +30.45% |
| 2019 | 142,441 | +3,284 | +2.36% |
| 2018 | 139,157 | +6,857 | +5.18% |
| 2017 | 132,300 | +17,576 | +15.32% |
| 2016 | 114,724 | +13,233 | +13.04% |
| 2015 | 101,491 | +6,976 | +7.38% |
| 2014 | 94,515 | +6,852 | +7.82% |
| 2013 | 87,663 | +9,406 | +12.02% |
| 2012 | 78,257 | +6,098 | +8.45% |
| 2011 | 72,159 | +12,106 | +20.16% |
| 2010 | 60,053 | — | — |
| 2008 | 62,415 | −8,386 | −11.84% |
| 2007 | 70,801 | +5,986 | +9.24% |
| 2006 | 64,815 | +9,151 | +16.44% |
| 2005 | 55,664 | +2,298 | +4.31% |
| 2004 | 53,366 | — | — |
The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages
United Kingdom
223,508
Sweden
15,190
Norway
11,792
Finland
5,746
Denmark
5,520
Estonia
3,392
Lithuania
3,377
Latvia
2,321
Iceland
1,419
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 The World Bank has withdrawn the “direct” series without the class count from publication.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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