Trademark applications - Direct nonresident trademark applications

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Trademark applications filed are applications to register a trademark with a national or regional Intellectual Property (IP) office. Direct nonresident trademark applications are those filed by applicants from abroad directly at a given national IP office.

Direct nonresident trademark applications (number)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Australia	9,189	15,589	17,715	19,272	20,459	21,578	22,055	22,971	23,672	25,266	28,265	30,852	29,457
Cambodia		1,658	1,223	3,129	3,664	4,200	4,886	3,707		5,133	5,534	5,976	6,410
Indonesia	2,427		10,082	4,525	2,543		16,695	11,931	10,454	14,183	16,187	18,145	22,850
Japan	19,791	22,004	21,131	21,013	22,343	23,718	23,636	24,575	26,906	29,672	34,154	38,423	39,460
Korea, Rep.	13,262	19,477	22,698	21,776	19,928	21,497	21,906	22,265	22,979	24,776	24,761	28,975	28,371
Lao PDR		705	1,428	1,953	2,633	2,434	2,834	2,711	2,657	2,281	2,789	3,056
Malaysia	4,989	12,500	11,668	13,271	15,832	17,832	17,520	19,171	19,983	20,580	21,612	23,793	24,125
New Zealand	6,544	15,822	8,564	8,695	9,116	8,955	10,819	11,388	11,936	13,454	14,025	14,817	14,996
Philippines	2,391	5,648	5,681	7,984	8,039	9,137	10,773	11,528	11,528	17,034	12,572	13,647	14,397
Singapore		17,429	15,451	12,595	13,960	14,657	15,229	15,656	15,987	16,897	17,670	19,665	20,061
Thailand	5,839	11,560	12,148	12,875	15,493	17,455	18,216	18,144	18,997	18,362	16,818	25,986	20,698
India	1,968	17,013	12,361	17,806	22,161	14,807	19,646	23,616	24,240	31,660	23,688	26,264	26,619
Nepal		515	419		1,379	1,490	1,706	1,796	1,812	1,863	1,677
Pakistan	1,015	2,855	3,765		4,475	4,342	5,114	4,691	4,512	9,109	7,793	7,438	5,591
Sri Lanka	994	2,321	1,900	2,302	2,925	3,178	3,344		3,432	3,935		4,127	3,709
Hong Kong SAR, China	7,316	20,516	13,390	17,970	20,839	22,326	23,496	24,890	24,803	22,845	23,121	25,378	23,406
Samoa						205		118	186	105	119	123	446
Bangladesh	466	1,531	1,332	2,374	3,013	3,135	3,580	3,611	3,487	3,795	3,843	4,120	4,392
China	6,611	31,054	64,215	83,049	112,917	115,850	114,551	107,356
Mongolia	1,421	2,834	3,160	1,662				2,325	2,233	2,076	2,353	2,613	2,496
Tonga	47									167	179	544
Brunei Darussalam	871	1,392	790	692	838	1,075	1,094	1,075		1,066	1,530	1,837	1,820
Papua New Guinea	224	900	447			860	789	796	862	753
Vietnam	2,301	4,615	7,247	10,599	9,625	10,950	10,999	11,755	12,091	13,960	15,216	16,961	18,450
Tuvalu	54
Armenia		2,376	2,603	3,042	3,276	3,391	3,370	3,164	3,021	2,754	3,066	3,155	3,310
Azerbaijan			2,605	2,880	3,190	4,326	4,602	4,286	4,096	3,672	3,753	3,733	3,883
Georgia		2,724	2,983	3,261	3,578	3,557	3,806	3,530	3,386	3,160	3,464	3,325	3,337
Kazakhstan		3,219		5,226	6,725	7,198	7,477	6,968	6,486	6,160	6,602	6,879	7,041
Kyrgyz Republic		2,289	2,410		2,960	3,104	3,063	2,706	2,866	2,654	3,008	3,281	3,080
Uzbekistan		2,565	2,536	2,776	3,027	3,089	3,103	2,934	2,835	2,518	2,728	2,921	3,247
Tajikistan		2,158	1,915	1,841	2,565	2,569	2,543		2,423	2,175			2,505
Turkmenistan		1,646	2,204
Bhutan		437	966		741	759	740		882	897	921
Myanmar				2,149	2,378	4,068

Direct nonresident trademark applications (number)

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