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
Brunei Darussalam	871	1,392	790	692	838	1,075	1,094	1,075		1,066	1,530	1,837	1,820
Cambodia		1,658	1,223	3,129	3,664	4,200	4,886	3,707		5,133	5,534	5,976	6,410
China	6,611	31,054	64,215	83,049	112,917	115,850	114,551	107,356
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
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
Macao SAR, China		2,020	4,091	5,989	7,350	8,596	8,893	10,866	11,307	9,823	11,105	14,028	12,884
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
Mongolia	1,421	2,834	3,160	1,662				2,325	2,233	2,076	2,353	2,613	2,496
Myanmar				2,149	2,378	4,068
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
Papua New Guinea	224	900	447			860	789	796	862	753
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
Samoa						205		118	186	105	119	123	446
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
Tonga	47									167	179	544
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
Albania		2,502	3,062	3,079	3,122		2,564	2,592	2,521	2,623	2,814	2,802	2,544
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
Austria	13,366	12,826	7,698	4,249	3,672	3,620	3,218	3,062	2,859	3,067	3,136	3,249	3,167
Belgium	18,635	14,145	10,865	4,821	4,616	4,293	4,065	4,041	3,957	4,216	4,240	4,276	4,175
Bulgaria	4,448	5,726	6,830	2,613	2,316	2,284	2,188	1,973	1,740	1,731	1,839	1,846	1,666
Croatia		6,243	6,637	5,904	5,583	5,524	3,838	2,090	1,642	1,616	1,577	1,701	1,446
Cyprus	1,046		2,271	1,484	1,433	1,380	1,204	1,177	873	1,026		1,270
Czechia		11,573	5,717	3,098	2,942	2,826	2,593	2,481	2,129	2,327	2,398	2,450	2,152
Denmark	6,745	8,400	4,972	2,163	2,288	2,049	1,921	1,786	1,588	1,679	1,746	1,708	1,786
Estonia		5,019	3,196	1,883	1,892	1,674	1,733	1,446	1,273	1,177	1,321	1,328	1,340
Finland	4,685	7,371	3,980	1,946	1,917	1,827	1,664	1,501	1,314	1,387	1,405	1,352	1,500
France	23,639	22,463	10,774	7,503	7,326	7,153	6,782	8,494	7,953	7,761	7,859	7,718	7,413
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
Germany		15,913	12,000	8,713	8,127	7,879	7,447	7,855	7,544	8,122	9,237	9,566	10,013
Greece		4,523	4,652	2,231	2,068
Hungary	7,446	11,076	5,456	2,612	2,373	2,282	2,239	1,873	1,680	1,832	1,874	1,959	1,729
Iceland	870	6,324		2,651	2,730	2,707	2,631	2,941	2,746	2,915	2,922	3,095	3,083
Ireland	6,896	3,523	3,895	2,028	1,952	1,822	1,677	1,592	1,595	1,627	1,718	1,819	1,758
Italy				5,675	5,356	4,952	4,616	4,635		4,762	5,098	5,275	5,209
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
Latvia		5,553	3,586	2,154	2,119	1,989	1,967	1,729	1,443	1,457	1,539	1,588	1,497
Liechtenstein	4,650		3,539				2,391	2,442	2,502	2,518	2,675	2,613	2,509
Lithuania		5,304	3,552	2,217	2,128	2,034	2,037	1,760	1,436	1,416	1,651	1,737	1,479
North Macedonia		3,848	4,324	3,653	3,418	3,343	3,323
Moldova		3,026	3,429	3,708	3,847	3,862	3,904	3,436	3,238	3,027	3,274	3,385	3,194
Montenegro				3,506	3,562	3,284	3,225	3,126	2,968	2,934		3,090	2,934
Norway	5,417	12,484	10,528	9,758	10,672	10,633	11,137	10,911	10,876	11,777	11,127	11,639	11,688
Poland	3,554	13,749	6,544	3,921	3,681	3,595	3,561	3,282	2,852	3,141	3,388	3,294	3,277
Portugal	14,050	10,525	5,790	2,849	2,733	2,365	2,338	2,178	1,961	2,462	2,586	2,422	2,460
Romania	4,527	6,997	8,951	3,058	2,840	2,595	2,606	2,324	1,974	2,056	2,008	2,297	2,327
Russian Federation		12,502	19,485	23,312	25,078	27,349	28,384	26,359	24,317	24,333	25,194	25,992	26,414
Slovak Republic		9,073	5,200	2,632	2,517	2,389	2,357	2,106	2,001	1,930	2,010	1,852	1,751
Slovenia		7,301	4,040	2,183	2,027							1,468
Spain	20,037	16,672	9,100	5,107	4,582	4,314	4,162	4,179	3,685	4,166	4,427	4,540	4,585
Sweden	6,499	8,640	4,994	2,489	2,513	2,378	2,151	1,915	1,784	1,979	1,994	1,924	1,982
Switzerland	13,629	19,611	16,778	16,677	17,363	17,066	17,436	17,346	17,601	18,658	18,572	19,225	19,897
Tajikistan		2,158	1,915	1,841	2,565	2,569	2,543		2,423	2,175			2,505
Turkiye	3,200	8,289	10,540	11,467	12,881	13,298	13,873	14,094	13,663	13,762	13,209	14,071	13,919
Ukraine		6,744	10,369	11,596	12,516	13,315	13,584	11,238	9,757	10,025	10,558	10,701	10,970
United Kingdom	19,618	17,112	11,316	9,441	7,840	7,674	7,838	8,408	8,669	12,980	20,598	28,120	36,892
Antigua and Barbuda					814	806	755	770	865	835	810	735
Argentina	14,475	18,947	19,754	19,454	20,148	15,772	15,004	14,352	14,070	15,319	15,053	16,220	15,304
Barbados			909	1,061	1,229	1,202	959	1,337	1,178	892	840		799
Belize			693		842	872	952	914	913	759	789	760	732
Bolivia	1,151	4,709	3,732	4,315	4,924	4,324	5,637	5,565		4,923	4,713
Brazil	6,111	21,269	16,219	23,524	30,028	31,181	31,092	29,091	27,989	28,490	26,911	28,356	28,393
Chile	3,200	10,731	7,374	14,971	10,479	10,254	9,688	8,963	8,862	8,698	11,584	8,677	8,685
Colombia	3,884	9,645	8,060	10,218	12,108	13,439	10,386	10,302	10,022	9,806	9,654	10,120	10,289
Costa Rica	3,299	5,961	5,428	5,498	7,365	5,961		7,241	7,615	7,376	6,503	4,878	4,681
Cuba	1,585	3,179	2,124		1,618	1,825	1,533	1,551	3,393	3,410	2,335	2,151	1,742
Dominican Republic			3,205	3,768	4,148	4,345	4,165	4,114	3,927	3,995	3,764	3,916	4,015
Ecuador	3,563	5,892	2,224	7,445			8,371	10,383	7,276	6,636	6,289	6,534	7,080
El Salvador	1,438								7,030	6,999	4,056	6,590	3,264
Grenada						175	417	357	288	249	269	417
Guatemala	1,396	5,163	4,399	5,397							5,797	5,808	5,644
Guyana	129					662	772	728		440	489	540
Haiti			1,079	1,365	1,288	1,202	1,114	1,189
Honduras	1,418	4,366	4,563	4,159	5,308	5,009	5,535	4,951	5,711	5,363	4,785	4,677	4,862
Jamaica	520	1,455	1,072	1,161	1,254	1,310	1,387	1,433	1,472	1,349	1,347	1,442	1,612
Mexico	9,579	23,023	22,219	25,529	29,190	29,817	27,097	28,832	29,759	30,182	30,462	32,227	32,946
Nicaragua	897	4,230	4,745				6,800
Panama	1,888	5,530	5,201	5,927	7,205	7,391	5,698	5,482	5,352	5,304	4,658	4,462	4,701
Paraguay		8,004	6,774	8,962								5,374
Peru	2,959	8,007	8,353	8,310		9,203	9,723	8,877	8,758	8,107	8,073	8,591	8,538
St. Kitts and Nevis									240	203	213	276
St. Lucia	185	476				376	363	403		338	303	352
St. Vincent and the Grenadines							313	255	240		244	184	172
Suriname			430	429	480	546	483	515	527	481	460	392
Trinidad and Tobago		1,754				1,188	1,131	1,110	1,296	991	1,006	994	886
Uruguay	2,679	11,388	8,930	3,300	3,844	3,665	3,717	3,597	3,354	3,110	3,282	3,109	2,968
Venezuela, RB	4,064	10,390	9,400	8,010	9,328	10,590	9,688	7,480	6,601	5,160	4,025
Bahrain	817	2,783	3,035		6,469	6,280	7,078	6,813	7,262	7,539	6,641	7,122	6,710
Djibouti							213
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
Israel	2,209	8,733	6,159	6,209	5,756	6,160	6,381	6,577	6,718	6,758	6,916	7,422	7,428
Jordan		3,266	3,078	4,064	4,514	4,465	4,397	4,405	4,760	4,333	4,562	4,494	4,076
Kuwait										6,388	6,434	7,195
Malta	514	1,401	1,271	415	399	382	445	340	294	167	396		196
Morocco	3,815	4,763	4,823	5,013	4,970	5,085	5,051	5,077	4,998	5,571	5,415	5,785	5,451
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
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
Yemen, Rep.		1,556	1,278	2,085	1,042		1,921	2,575	1,969	1,842	1,772	1,755	1,359
Canada	11,733	24,172	23,055	24,771	27,135	28,369	28,370	29,680	29,872	31,013	33,060	35,738	39,669
United States	20,653	41,244	39,377	44,597	48,368	51,366	53,115	59,288	71,743	92,690	117,716	122,683	140,906
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
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
Angola										2,019	1,622	1,763	1,729
Botswana					1,283	1,479	1,363	1,465	1,545	1,440	1,466	1,382	1,326
Burundi	87
Cabo Verde										254	162	211	193
Ghana	232								2,582	2,702	2,426	2,591
Kenya			1,978	2,136	2,378	2,759	2,546		2,824		3,112		3,302
Lesotho												1,121
Madagascar		408	419	1,032	1,029	1,140	1,096	1,146	1,181	1,284	1,204	1,465	1,294
Malawi	284	618	335	1,834	798	755	649	666	836	668
Mauritius	302				1,058	997	971	1,000	1,058	1,218	1,057	1,008	1,066
Mozambique		2,736	1,602	1,772	2,007	2,043	2,048	2,380	2,574	2,133	2,022	2,033	2,201
Namibia	2,048					2,220	2,007	2,198	2,430	2,358	2,141	1,904	2,800
Nigeria	614										8,322	9,504	7,317
Rwanda	69	124	187			408		1,122	1,092	1,036	1,338	1,404	1,325
Seychelles	195									511	479	690	540
Sierra Leone						907	934	895		1,045	1,152	1,493	1,126
South Africa	3,345	12,169	10,850	12,509	13,962	14,105	15,199	14,943	15,326	15,112	15,337	15,820	15,788
Tanzania		620	310
Gambia, The		391	399	500	377	418	350	517	382	677	917	1,078	947
Uganda	131	668	645				1,354	1,590	1,769	1,753	115
Zambia	311		1,525	2,558	1,546	1,915	2,358	2,117	1,876	1,946	2,076	1,943	1,957
Zimbabwe	735					1,451	1,251	1,682	1,690	1,866

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