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Current Statistical Data for Designs

At a glance

	2023	2024	Changes in %
Designs applied for[1]	29,259	29,962	+ 2.4
Designs in registration procedures concluded	29,751	30,675	+ 3.1
- with registration	27,018	28,024	+ 3.7
Designs in force	248,899	238,193	- 4.3
[1]Preliminary for 2024, 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
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	28,110	1,149	29,259	27,564
2024[1]	28,723	1,239	29,962	27,924
[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
2020	37,130	4,210	41,340
2021	31,089	3,390	34,479
2022	36,256	3,602	39,858
2023	27,018	2,733	29,751
2024	28,024	2,651	30,675

Companies and institutions with the most registered designs in 2024

Ranking	Proprietor[1]	Seat	Registered Designs
1	Betty Barclay Group GmbH & Co. KG	Germany	972
2	SWING Collections GmbH	Germany	708
3	SHOE CONZEPT Handels GmbH	Germany	569
[1] Proportional counting in the case of several proprietors; without taking into account any business intra-group affiliations.

Registered designs by German Länder in 2024

GermanLänder	Registered designs	Percentage	Registered designs per 100,000 inhabitants
North Rhine-Westphalia	7,349	28.3	40
Bavaria	4,681	18.0	35
Baden-Württemberg	4,609	17.7	41
Lower Saxony	1,723	6.6	21
Berlin	1,544	5.9	41
Rhineland-Palatinate	1,456	5.6	35
Hesse	1,303	5.0	20
Schleswig-Holstein	887	3.4	30
Hamburg	758	2.9	40
Saxony	581	2.2	14
Brandenburg	284	1.1	11
Thuringia	278	1.1	13
Saxony-Anhalt	152	0.6	7
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	128	0.5	8
Saarland	124	0.5	12
Bremen	110	0.4	16
Germany	25,967	100	31

TOP 5 classes^[1] in 2024

Class	Class includes	Registrations in 2023	Registrations in 2024	Changes in %
2	Articles of clothing and haberdashery	3,849	4,415	+ 14.7
6	Furnishing	4,468	4,394	- 1.7
32	Graphic symbols and logos, surface patterns, ornamentation, arrangement of interiors and exteriors	3,758	3,631	- 3.4
11	Articles of adornment	2,700	2,773	+ 2.7
26	Lighting apparatus	1,609	1,981	+ 23.1
[1] A design can be attributed to several classes.

Last updated: 16 April 2025