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Current Statistical Data for Designs

At a glance

	2022	2023	Changes in %
Designs applied for[1]	33,817	28,934	- 14.4
Designs in registration procedures concluded	39,853	29,744	- 25.4
- with registration	36,251	27,011	- 25.5
Designs in force	260,399	248,890	- 4.4
[1]Preliminary for 2023, as the actual number of designs applied for will not be known until the registration procedure is completed.

Designs applied for

Year	Applications with multiple Designs	Applications with one design	Total	of which from Germany
2019	40,843	2,256	43,099	36,398
2020	37,659	2,493	40,152	35,867
2021	34,988	2,261	37,249	33,985
2022	32,637	1,180	33,817	31,777
2023[1]	27,750	1,184	28,934	27,245
[1]Preliminary, as the actual number of designs applied for will not be known until the registration procedure is completed.

Conclusions

Year	by registration	without registration	Total
2019	41,152	3,841	44,993
2020	37,130	4,210	41,340
2021	31,089	3,390	34,479
2022	36,251	3,602	39,853
2023	27,011	2,733	29,744

Companies and institutions with the most registered designs in 2023

Ranking	Proprietor[1]	Seat	Registered Designs
1	Betty Barclay Group GmbH & Co. KG	Germany	1,023
2	SWING Collections GmbH	Germany	753
3	The House of Art GmbH	Germany	684
[1] Without taking into account possible business group affiliations.

Registered designs by German Länder in 2023

GermanLänder	Registered designs	Percentage	Registered designs per 100,000 inhabitants
North Rhine-Westphalia	7,778	30.6	43
Baden-Württemberg	4,762	18.7	42
Bavaria	4,246	16.7	32
Lower Saxony	1,582	6.2	19
Berlin	1,579	6.2	42
Hesse	1,091	4.3	17
Rhineland-Palatinate	1,012	4.0	24
Schleswig-Holstein	712	2.8	24
Hamburg	697	2.7	37
Saxony	657	2.6	16
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	294	1.2	18
Bremen	257	1.0	38
Thuringia	250	1.0	12
Brandenburg	200	0.8	8
Saxony-Anhalt	164	0.6	8
Saarland	123	0.5	12
Germany	25,404	100	30

TOP 5 classes^[1] in 2023^[2]

Class	Class includes	Registrations in 2022	Registrations in 2023	Changes in %
6	Furnishing	6,170	4,496	- 27.1
2	Articles of clothing and haberdashery	5,827	3,857	- 33.8
32	Graphic symbols and logos, surface patterns, ornamentation, arrangement of interiors and exteriors	4,394	3,780	- 14.0
11	Articles of adornment	2,679	2,709	+ 1.1
7	Household goods, not elsewhere specified	2,186	1,768	- 19.1
[1] A design can be attributed to several classes.
[2] Unlike previous statistics, this table indicates the number of the unique classes of registered designs and not the number of products.

Last updated: 1 March 2024