Austria - Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count

The value for Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count in Austria was 55.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 40 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3,112.00 in 1994 and a minimum value of 55.00 in 2020.

Definition: Industrial design applications are applications to register an industrial design with a national or regional Intellectual Property (IP) offices and designations received by relevant offices through the Hague System. Industrial designs are applied to a wide variety of industrial products and handicrafts. They refer to the ornamental or aesthetic aspects of a useful article, including compositions of lines or colors or any three-dimensional forms that give a special appearance to a product or handicraft. The holder of a registered industrial design has exclusive rights against unauthorized copying or imitation of the design by third parties. Industrial design registrations are valid for a limited period. The term of protection is usually 15 years for most jurisdictions. However, differences in legislation do exist, notably in China (which provides for a 10-year term from the application date). Non-resident application refers to an application filed with the IP office of or acting on behalf of a state or jurisdiction in which the first-named applicant in the application is not domiciled. Design count is used to render application data for industrial applications across offices comparable, as some offices follow a single-class/single-design filing system while other have a multiple class/design filing system.

Source: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Statistics Database at www.wipo.int/ipstats/. The International Bureau of WIPO assumes no responsibility with respect to the transformation of these data.

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Year Value
1980 1,744.00
1981 2,014.00
1982 2,243.00
1983 2,012.00
1984 2,504.00
1985 2,278.00
1986 2,067.00
1987 1,894.00
1988 1,941.00
1989 2,264.00
1990 2,448.00
1991 1,973.00
1992 2,328.00
1993 2,489.00
1994 3,112.00
1995 2,881.00
1996 2,724.00
1997 2,854.00
1998 2,675.00
1999 2,764.00
2000 2,971.00
2001 2,440.00
2002 2,370.00
2003 1,303.00
2004 468.00
2005 444.00
2006 141.00
2007 289.00
2008 195.00
2009 101.00
2010 287.00
2011 243.00
2012 525.00
2013 390.00
2014 390.00
2015 288.00
2016 294.00
2017 376.00
2018 179.00
2019 187.00
2020 55.00

Limitations and Exceptions: An industrial design right protects only the appearance or aesthetic features of a product, whereas a patent protects an invention that offers a new technical solution to a problem. In principle, an industrial design right does not protect the technical or functional features of a product. Industrial design registrations are valid for a limited period. The term of protection is usually 15 years for most jurisdictions. However, differences in legislation do exist, notably in China (which provides for a 10-year term from the application date). Data are based on information supplied to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) by IP offices in annual surveys, supplemented by data in national IP office reports. Data may be missing for some offices or periods.

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Technology