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.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain | 817 | 2,783 | 3,035 | 6,469 | 6,280 | 7,078 | 6,813 | 7,262 | 7,539 | 6,641 | 7,122 | 6,710 |
| Kuwait | 6,388 | 6,434 | 7,195 | |||||||||
| Oman | 2,062 | 2,174 | 1,991 | 1,964 | 2,037 | |||||||
| Qatar | 6,387 | 6,288 | 7,182 | 6,203 | 7,007 | 7,039 | ||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 10,760 | 10,831 | 16,233 | 13,329 | 14,258 | |||||||
| United Arab Emirates | 12,851 | 12,668 | 13,454 | 13,329 | 14,990 | 13,578 | 12,967 | 13,739 | 13,179 |