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Current Statistical Data for Designs

At a glance

	2024	2025	Changes in %
Designs applied for	30,133	29,687	- 1.5
Designs in registration procedures concluded	30,685	27,161	- 11.5
- with registration	28,035	25,377	- 9.5
Designs in force	238,208	226,690	- 4.8

Designs applied for

Year	Applications with multiple Designs	Applications with one design	Total	of which from Germany
2021	34,988	2,261	37,249	33,985
2022	32,666	1,180	33,846	31,806
2023	28,110	1,149	29,259	27,564
2024	28,908	1,225	30,133	28,093
2025	28,286	1,401	29,687	28,082

Designs concluded

Year	by registration	without registration	Total
2021	31,089	3,390	34,479
2022	36,258	3,602	39,860
2023	27,018	2,733	29,751
2024	28,035	2,650	30,685
2025	25,377	1,784	27,161

Companies and institutions with the most registered designs in 2025

Ranking	Proprietor[1]	Seat	Registered Designs
1	Betty Barclay Group GmbH & Co. KG	Germany	906
2	The House of Art GmbH	Germany	537
3	monari GmbH	Germany	492
[1] Proportional counting in the case of several proprietors; without taking into account any business intra-group affiliations.

Registered designs by German Länder in 2025

GermanLänder	Registered designs	Percentage	Registered designs per 100,000 inhabitants
North Rhine-Westphalia	6,642	27.5	37
Baden-Württemberg	3,964	16.4	35
Bavaria	3,379	14.0	26
Lower Saxony	1,833	7.6	23
Schleswig-Holstein	1,744	7.2	59
Berlin	1,442	6.0	39
Hesse	1,327	5.5	21
Rhineland-Palatinate	1,319	5.5	32
Saxony	677	2.8	17
Hamburg	629	2.6	34
Brandenburg	477	2.0	19
Thuringia	289	1.2	14
Saxony-Anhalt	190	0.8	9
Saarland	140	0.6	14
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	56	0.2	4
Bremen	25	0.1	4
Germany	24,133	100	29

TOP 5 classes^[1] in 2025

Class	Class includes	Registrations in 2024	Registrations in 2025	Changes in %
6	Furnishing	4,394	4,756	+ 8.2
2	Articles of clothing and haberdashery	4,415	3,443	- 22.0
32	Graphic symbols and logos, surface patterns, ornamentation, arrangement of interiors and exteriors	3,634	3,090	- 15.0
11	Articles of adornment	2,773	2,200	- 20.7
19	Stationery and office equipment, artists' and teaching materials	1,376	1,535	+ 11.6
[1] A design can be attributed to several classes.

Last updated: 2 March 2026