United States - Industrial design applications

Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count

The value for Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count in United States was 29,057 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 40 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29,057 in 2020 and a minimum value of 2,055 in 1980.

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 2,055
1981 2,059
1982 2,238
1983 2,415
1984 2,877
1985 3,170
1986 3,227
1987 3,668
1988 3,701
1989 4,198
1990 3,281
1991 3,589
1992 4,079
1993 3,596
1994 3,876
1995 4,578
1996 4,637
1997 5,256
1998 5,713
1999 6,299
2000 6,757
2001 7,135
2002 7,903
2003 8,888
2004 10,068
2005 11,026
2006 11,277
2007 12,271
2008 12,319
2009 11,023
2010 12,353
2011 13,024
2012 13,987
2013 15,763
2014 15,058
2015 18,187
2016 21,015
2017 22,451
2018 24,324
2019 26,857
2020 29,057

Industrial design applications, resident, by count

The value for Industrial design applications, resident, by count in United States was 21,686 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 40 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24,405 in 2016 and a minimum value of 5,316 in 1981.

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). Resident application refers to an application filed with the IP office of or acting on behalf of the state or jurisdiction in which the first-named applicant in the application has residence. 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 5,775
1981 5,316
1982 5,936
1983 5,667
1984 5,862
1985 6,381
1986 6,685
1987 7,485
1988 7,588
1989 8,417
1990 8,007
1991 9,472
1992 8,999
1993 10,039
1994 11,898
1995 10,831
1996 10,524
1997 11,290
1998 11,394
1999 11,462
2000 11,536
2001 11,145
2002 13,001
2003 13,714
2004 13,913
2005 14,527
2006 14,239
2007 15,481
2008 15,463
2009 14,783
2010 16,706
2011 17,443
2012 18,812
2013 20,271
2014 20,320
2015 22,785
2016 24,405
2017 23,618
2018 22,825
2019 22,988
2020 21,686

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Technology