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.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 329 | 411 | 358 | 359 | 418 | 519 | 464 | 606 | 603 | ||||
| Lesotho | 68 | ||||||||||||
| Namibia | 55 | 439 | 332 | 364 | 1,608 | 739 | 3,423 | 2,005 | 342 | ||||
| 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 |