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 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 3,262 | 3,239 | 3,585 | 3,188 | 3,464 | 3,533 | 2,173 | 4,888 | 3,750 | 3,014 | 4,176 | 4,028 | 6,720 |
| Bahrain | 817 | 2,783 | 3,035 | 6,469 | 6,280 | 7,078 | 6,813 | 7,262 | 7,539 | 6,641 | 7,122 | 6,710 | |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 6,363 | 6,206 | 7,781 | 7,586 | 7,275 | 7,489 | 7,870 | 7,824 | 8,002 | 7,302 | 8,316 | 8,226 | |
| Iraq | 5,000 | 10,000 | |||||||||||
| Kuwait | 6,388 | 6,434 | 7,195 | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| Syrian Arab Republic | 7,619 | 5,151 | 2,971 | ||||||||||
| Tunisia | 1,117 | 2,494 | 2,912 | 2,231 | 2,261 | 2,355 | 3,249 | 3,129 | 3,314 | 3,247 | |||
| United Arab Emirates | 12,851 | 12,668 | 13,454 | 13,329 | 14,990 | 13,578 | 12,967 | 13,739 | 13,179 |