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In the area of designs the existence of Community design system had significant impact on the number of foreign applications. Compared to the preceding year the number has decreased by 60.6 % to 13.
93 applications for industrial designs were filed with the Office in 2006. It is in total 32.1 % decrease in comparison with 2005. From the foreign applicants the most active are Czechs (6).
Although the Slovak applicants filed by 24 applications less than in 2005 (decrease by 23.1 %). Share of domestic application makes 86 %.
126 designs has been registered in the year 2006, that is less by 16 % than previous year.
On December 31, 2006 there were 1,581 industrial domestic design registrations valid.
For the comparison there are the statistics of the years 2000 - 2006 in industrial design area:
designstatistics.doc
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
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