{"id":26208,"date":"2015-08-07T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T02:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/sinapse\/?p=26208"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:01:42","slug":"industrial-design-patent-filings-india-progress-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/industrial-design-patent-filings-india-progress-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Property (IP) in India: A Decade of Progress Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>The Designs Act 2000 governs the registration and protection of industrial designs in India and is administered by the Design wing of the Patent office Kolkata, under the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trademarks and Geographical Indications. The Designs Act 2000 came into effect repealing the earlier Act of 1911, and is read alongside the Design Rules 2001. The Act, read with the corresponding Design Rules 2001, provides for the registration and protection of industrial designs, extending copyright duration for existing registered designs. It recognises the creation of features of new shape, configuration, surface pattern, ornamentation, and composition of lines and colours applied to articles to enhance their visual appeal.<\/p>\n<h2>Trends in Design Filings<\/h2>\n<p>Applications filed for registration of designs in 2006-07 numbered 5,521, reflecting an increase of approximately 11 per cent over the 4,949 applications filed in 2005-06. The highest single-year increase in design applications was recorded in 2007-08, with an increase of approximately 16 per cent over the previous year. This marked a sustained upward trend in annual filings.<\/p>\n<p>The first decline in the decade occurred in 2009-10, when applications fell from 6,557 in 2008-09 to 6,092, a marginal decrease of approximately 7 per cent. The second decline occurred in 2012-13, where total filings fell by 36 applications from the previous year. The highest total number of filings recorded across the decade was in 2013-14, with 8,533 applications.<\/p>\n<h2>Industrial Design Applications Filed and Registered in India: 2003-04 to 2013-14<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Year<\/td>\n<td>Filed<\/td>\n<td>Registered<\/td>\n<td>Change Since Previous Year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003-2004<\/td>\n<td>3357<\/td>\n<td>2547<\/td>\n<td>233<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004-2005<\/td>\n<td>4107<\/td>\n<td>3728<\/td>\n<td>750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005-2006<\/td>\n<td>4949<\/td>\n<td>4175<\/td>\n<td>842<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006-2007<\/td>\n<td>5521<\/td>\n<td>4250<\/td>\n<td>572<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007-2008<\/td>\n<td>6402<\/td>\n<td>4928<\/td>\n<td>881<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008-2009<\/td>\n<td>6557<\/td>\n<td>4772<\/td>\n<td>155<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009-2010<\/td>\n<td>6092<\/td>\n<td>6025<\/td>\n<td>-465<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010-2011<\/td>\n<td>7589<\/td>\n<td>9206<\/td>\n<td>1497<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011-2012<\/td>\n<td>8373<\/td>\n<td>6590<\/td>\n<td>784<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012-2013<\/td>\n<td>8337<\/td>\n<td>7252<\/td>\n<td>-36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013-2014<\/td>\n<td>8533<\/td>\n<td>7178<\/td>\n<td>204<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Disclaimer<\/h2>\n<p>This article is for general information and does not constitute legal advice. Readers should consult a qualified attorney before acting on any matter discussed here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article reviews statistics on industrial design filings in India over the past decade, with reference to the Designs Act 2000. It provides an objective analysis of trends, legislative context, and the role of the Patent Office Kolkata in design registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":34,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4014,7550,12925,6596,344,3760,1258,7363],"class_list":["post-26208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","tag-design-filings","tag-design-registration-india","tag-design-rules-2001","tag-designs-act-2000","tag-industrial-design","tag-industrial-design-statistics","tag-intellectual-property-india","tag-patent-office-kolkata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149846,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208\/revisions\/149846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}