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
Australia	12,826	27,301	38,191	39,641	40,154	41,181	39,675	41,682	47,088	47,059	46,344	48,283	44,189
Brunei Darussalam	9	31	56	33	19	53	41	101		102	121	141	180
Cambodia		281	358	840	903	968	968	1,182		1,650	2,063	2,302	2,815
China	50,853	181,717	593,388	973,514	1,273,859	1,502,582	1,733,387	1,997,058
Hong Kong SAR, China	3,214	7,598	7,487	10,902	11,703	13,204	13,596	15,173	14,376	13,336	14,509	14,953	13,574
Indonesia	16,711		30,734	43,269	50,653		44,288	34,521	37,090	48,756	51,918	56,583	39,171
Japan	151,935	124,361	114,033	92,162	84,674	95,547	92,505	100,044	117,956	133,335	154,777	145,270	148,914
Korea, Rep.	33,564	90,596	99,435	106,896	112,578	120,341	135,233	138,046	160,026	157,113	155,665	170,541	190,193
Lao PDR		24	63	109	148	174	112	163	182	197	297	249
Macao SAR, China		84	560	765	1,240	985	1,191	1,421	1,833	1,684	2,030	2,438	2,479
Malaysia	3,614	6,303	10,479	13,099	13,001	14,044	14,705	15,400	15,940	18,527	19,481	19,863	22,485
Mongolia	40	121	369	539				1,026	1,197	1,138	1,351	1,431	1,574
Myanmar				3,821	4,007	4,422
New Zealand	3,528	8,224	8,269	8,429	8,632	9,241	8,087	8,910	8,791	9,201	9,320	9,666	9,453
Papua New Guinea	29	35	70			139	180	117	109	108
Philippines	1,949	4,975	7,048	8,855	10,572	11,679	12,269	14,490	14,809	15,761	18,584	21,625	23,445
Samoa						23		21	15	22	21	28	35
Singapore		5,187	5,071	4,334	4,242	4,608	4,804	5,641	5,393	5,861	6,484	6,305	6,489
Thailand	7,024	15,495	24,275	24,781	23,457	27,508	27,881	27,517	33,347	33,252	26,511	28,141	26,701
Tonga										3	6	2
Vietnam	890	3,483	12,884	21,215	22,376	22,813	24,629	26,563	30,476	34,971	35,520	37,476	43,652
Albania		32	147	286	274		377	420	509	662	684	917	788
Armenia		510	963	1,266	1,102	1,122	1,167	1,342	1,340	1,261	1,473	1,560	2,157
Austria	3,788	7,839	7,569	5,913	5,695	5,862	5,741	5,656	5,267	5,122	5,059	5,384	5,689
Belgium	14,467	22,959	26,579	20,850	21,142	20,167	19,688	19,086	20,661	20,120	20,179	19,296	19,071
Bulgaria	382	3,256	6,757	4,308	4,058	3,840	3,680	4,205	4,096	4,234	4,150	3,969	3,721
Croatia		788	1,173	1,620	1,461	1,328	1,374	1,442	1,265	1,347	1,251	1,060	1,493
Cyprus	675		462	768	655	794	643	741	696	1,056		1,074
Czechia		7,643	9,279	7,795	8,092	8,208	8,302	7,643	7,850	7,439	7,439	7,047	7,141
Denmark	3,289	3,788	4,576	3,401	3,061	2,803	2,795	2,694	2,851	2,674	2,554	2,392	2,421
Estonia		884	1,266	1,067	888	857	995	1,116	1,092	975	1,060	1,377	1,176
Finland	1,981	2,907	2,821	3,336	3,404	3,377	3,477	2,950	2,968	3,438	3,050	2,886	2,850
France	67,772	89,861	63,715	85,638	85,715	82,717	82,632	82,466	86,964	84,037	86,315	90,581	95,100
Georgia		296	507	641	841	753	805	915	1,092	1,480	1,661	1,371	1,445
Germany		81,979	67,223	65,516	60,614	56,714	57,049	63,027	65,263	65,293	67,470	65,686	68,291
Greece		6,603	5,872	4,010	4,065
Hungary	1,373	4,693	3,515	3,481	3,773	2,474	3,428	3,489	3,179	3,671	3,770	3,492	3,555
Iceland	203	960		634	689	667	611	688	640	746	723	853	638
Ireland	620	1,258	1,506	1,539	1,487	1,619	1,704	1,905	1,982	1,952	2,052	1,930	1,642
Italy				36,158	37,004	34,617	36,006	35,560		37,103	36,873	37,320	37,690
Kazakhstan		1,548		1,611	1,891	2,245	2,371	2,559	2,357	3,083	3,033	3,739	4,068
Kyrgyz Republic		45	241		180	184	232	274	243	187	310	319	328
Latvia		995	1,367	1,260	1,267	1,297	1,188	1,205	1,547	1,182	1,521	1,843	1,092
Liechtenstein	102		202				196	218	176	168	135	173	139
Lithuania		1,514	1,839	1,963	1,980	1,996	2,009	2,182	2,193	2,390	2,528	2,438	1,937
North Macedonia		736	433	945	917	876	739
Moldova		540	2,093	1,401	1,300	1,288	1,299	1,483	1,251	1,273	1,209	1,254	1,263
Montenegro				66	94	87	94	123	109	135		149	111
Norway	1,410	3,802	3,090	3,627	3,413	3,427	3,508	4,025	4,157	4,324	4,514	4,855	4,251
Poland	2,554	14,111	13,829	14,065	14,252	13,248	13,534	13,140	12,615	13,854	13,739	12,811	13,296
Portugal	5,060	8,046	8,592	16,603	15,616	14,297	14,643	17,490	16,548	16,233	17,822	18,906	19,050
Romania	654	4,241	11,121	8,753	8,389	7,741	8,862	8,165	8,067	8,262	7,922	8,226	8,586
Russian Federation		30,338	26,460	32,758	33,256	34,859	34,634	34,189	34,314	41,529	46,602	49,132	58,626
Slovak Republic		2,083	2,739	2,236	2,333	2,218	2,446	2,507	2,537	2,480	2,334	2,237	2,317
Slovenia		1,044	1,399	1,596	1,410							1,235
Spain	60,955	82,309	54,271	41,767	42,755	42,737	45,530	48,585	49,433	50,574	50,651	50,834	49,116
Sweden	5,421	7,784	8,694	9,930	9,289	8,750	8,209	7,946	8,352	8,531	8,649	7,289	7,739
Switzerland	3,596	9,043	9,432	11,176	10,920	11,441	11,433	11,683	12,386	11,747	12,715	12,774	12,644
Tajikistan		35	83	194	161	141	137		109	103			323
Turkiye	8,143	21,188	48,981	73,142	103,750	97,304	93,342	97,139	95,914	94,574	106,099	105,549	119,411
Ukraine		4,423	13,184	16,711	16,837	17,946	19,774	15,144	21,246	26,065	26,276	27,330	29,829
United Kingdom	20,014	25,438	24,184	26,814	31,273	35,239	42,167	46,388	49,223	54,073	63,158	66,833	68,782
Antigua and Barbuda					14	4	16	14	38	29	23	31
Argentina	52,578	42,900	59,264	68,974	57,346	44,398	40,291	44,134	52,208	55,739	59,669	55,492	49,081
Barbados			179	135	142	196	223	246	159	202	21		232
Belize			71		137	120	77	103	120	98	71	120	138
Bolivia	214	662	1,275	1,678	2,287	2,642	2,649	2,467		3,000	3,491
Brazil	57,769	86,960	83,099	104,168	122,671	120,530	132,330	127,925	130,720	137,878	159,192	176,063	218,764
Chile	13,604	23,657	26,383	30,133	25,254	23,577	23,876	22,906	22,995	24,944	28,403	25,850	25,898
Colombia	7,543	6,965	11,877	15,772	16,976	18,591	15,538	15,386	17,969	17,764	17,432	18,011	19,955
Costa Rica	1,042	4,038	4,511	5,767	6,759	6,002		5,120	5,985	6,797	7,902	5,117	7,101
Cuba	160	716	262		256	778	494	690	626	656	703	826	1,156
Dominican Republic			3,920	4,186	4,733	5,237	5,248	5,624	6,122	6,599	7,326	7,244	7,028
Ecuador	2,399	4,145	11,593	8,750			11,739	15,006	10,247	9,254	8,262	11,435	12,270
El Salvador	1,535								4,419	3,621	5,026	4,040	4,857
Grenada							40	4	9	12	41	19
Guatemala	3,042	4,658	5,344	3,778							6,215	6,513	6,977
Guyana	13					11	16	20		45	62	69
Haiti			262	409	608	567	622	460
Honduras	614	1,554	2,156	1,930	2,089	1,929	2,073	1,956	2,043	2,185	2,292	2,551	2,676
Jamaica	173	320	583	973	1,119	948	760	865	1,395	1,142	1,151	1,122	1,232
Mexico	15,863	36,698	41,680	68,928	71,091	76,010	77,265	81,101	90,684	98,739	108,590	109,353	112,970
Nicaragua	202	1,164	1,059				1,146
Panama	1,688	2,057	2,906	3,702	4,167	4,455	3,459	3,397	3,830	3,625	3,196	2,779	3,100
Paraguay		5,949	8,890	13,140								12,085
Peru	4,286	7,948	10,468	14,810		16,092	15,535	16,381	17,596	17,470	18,923	21,381	26,709
St. Kitts and Nevis									1	9	11	5
St. Lucia	5	41				28	27	30		31	21	33
St. Vincent and the Grenadines							7	18	4		2	12	15
Suriname			131	154	200	234	218	210	159	155	183	154
Trinidad and Tobago		366				356	311	368	380	408	322	346	389
Uruguay	2,572	4,310	3,834	2,430	2,458	2,178	2,304	2,239	2,217	2,066	2,263	2,284	2,512
Venezuela, RB	17,706	13,313	19,897	13,338	14,894	16,428	15,029	13,275	12,945	16,463	18,414
Bahrain	112	215	323		269	310	429	415	380	371	253	305	347
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
Israel	1,020	2,997	2,816	2,569	2,514	2,186	2,244	2,379	2,507	2,341	2,568	2,622	2,676
Jordan		3,307	3,638	1,907	2,298	2,286	2,113	2,553	2,725	3,013	3,085	2,981	2,730
Kuwait										2,968	3,601	3,543
Malta	169	232	403	450	423	405	503	422	410	435	771		535
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
Oman									6,914	9,172	11,307	11,486	11,064
Qatar					656	485	797	1,405			1,117		1,333
Saudi Arabia								4,897	7,423		17,092	18,563	23,411
Tunisia	315	890	952		1,675	1,849	2,219	2,382	2,320	2,622	2,800
United Arab Emirates					3,208	4,130	5,293	6,992	6,425	5,199	6,075	4,711	5,507
Yemen, Rep.		387	1,312	2,080	2,191		1,876	2,020	1,323	2,561	2,941	4,044	4,331
Canada	13,948	22,080	18,777	20,449	21,337	21,741	21,449	21,348	22,589	23,652	25,853	27,320	28,608
United States	106,693	251,220	224,300	236,864	256,841	261,959	270,225	283,290	303,233	300,552	330,498	342,150	351,823
Bangladesh	2,008	4,639	6,093	7,857	8,632	8,294	8,001	7,930	9,322	8,580	9,247	7,960	8,043
India	18,713	67,262	73,308	172,120	176,386	176,044	183,172	200,140	250,585	264,662	242,482	297,750	322,293
Maldives			55
Nepal		660	585		2,204	2,471	2,845	2,942	2,464	3,215	4,005
Pakistan	2,158	5,465	8,789		14,003	15,323	15,708	20,576	23,544	27,017	30,632	30,543	32,741
Sri Lanka	1,159	3,317	4,587	3,942	4,732	5,938	5,481		5,983	6,893		7,356	6,676
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
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
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
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

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