Trademark applications - Direct resident 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 resident trademark applications are those filed by domestic applicants directly at a given national IP office.

Direct resident trademark applications (number)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Algeria	461	1,237	1,676	2,070	2,294	2,332	1,261	4,929	3,968	4,130	4,707	5,469	5,169
Djibouti							17
Egypt, Arab Rep.		5,007	6,367	14,079	10,124	10,773	9,940	11,390	12,327	12,856	14,645	16,227	17,887
Morocco	1,228	2,553	4,993	5,523	5,491	5,656	5,820	6,165	6,139	7,216	7,890	7,495	9,897
Tunisia	315	890	952		1,675	1,849	2,219	2,382	2,320	2,622	2,800
Angola										1,585	1,724	2,354	2,604
Botswana					329	411	358	359	418	519	464	606	603
Burkina Faso		5	30	34
Burundi	14
Cabo Verde										94	89	133	91
Ethiopia	177	346	211		380	930	1,201	1,274	865	1,073	1,083	542
Ghana	57								883	900	928	833
Guinea-Bissau			4		11	12	14
Kenya			1,017	2,031	2,488	2,328	2,816		3,437		3,675		3,903
Lesotho												68
Madagascar		227	439	610	621	739	633	800	638	860	855	770	814
Malawi	135	105	159	205	401	409	334	393	428	499
Mauritius	213				826	839	787	855	991	1,110	1,035	1,086	1,123
Mozambique		244	533	1,066	955	1,388	1,112	1,274	1,157	1,295	1,278	1,247	1,655
Namibia	55					439	332	364	1,608	739	3,423	2,005	342
Nigeria	1,392				20,560	17,182	19,332				15,557	11,221	11,341
Rwanda	16	2	21			109		102	246	194	255	318	316
Sao Tome and Principe			8	2	6	19	5	13	6	24	15	8	7
Seychelles	3				91		106			13	58	67	105
Sierra Leone						150	122	350		113	300	480	200
South Africa	7,528	13,509	16,985	18,040	19,522	20,499	20,871	20,475	21,594	22,676	22,381	22,542	21,583
Sudan		573	533	934	915	847	223	1,616	1,333	1,332	1,558	1,780	1,647
Tanzania		21	15
Gambia, The		24	22	16	30	23	56	45	45	69	54	53	105
Uganda	27	228	413				725	1,076	1,046	1,291	1,359
Zambia	14		240	378	470	633	398	527	682	793	1,072	1,190	1,083
Zimbabwe	372					426	323	310	285	155

Direct resident trademark applications (number)

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