Who is filing
University/Institute/College: the applicant is, or belongs to, an academic or research institution. Company: the applicant is, or belongs to, a company, LLP, firm or enterprise. Individual Person: neither. The first-named applicant decides.
Applicant mix
Share of registered designs
Leading companies
Designs where a company is the first applicant. Bar colour marks Indian or foreign origin; click a bar to list its designs.
Most active academic institutions
Designs naming the institution in any co-applicant's affiliation
Co-applicants per design
Academic filings cluster at four named applicants, the journal's typical cap
What is being protected
Locarno classification (15th edition). Click a class tile to see its subclasses; click the path above the tiles to go back.
Class and subclass map
Tile area is the number of designs. Colour runs from indigo (mostly commercial) to amber (mostly academic).
Who drives each class
Top 14 classes, split by applicant type
Largest subclasses
Top 15 subclasses by designs, split by applicant type
Where filings come from
Origin uses the file's First Applicant Country and Indian States columns, after the corrections listed under Data quality. Priority office is the office of first filing named in a Paris Convention priority claim.
Indian states: who files where
Designs with an Indian first applicant, split by applicant type
Foreign origin to priority office
Top foreign origins, and whether they claimed priority from a first filing elsewhere
How long registration took
Prosecution days run from the Indian filing date to the journal issue that published the registration.
Distribution of prosecution time
Designs by time band, split by whether priority was claimed
Median days by segment
Half of each segment registered faster than this
When the registered designs were filed
Filing quarter of designs registered in Q1 2026. Older bars show backlog being cleared.
Design explorer
Records matching the filters. Click a column heading to sort.
| Design no. | Title | First applicant | Type | Origin | Class | Issue | Days |
|---|
Data quality: what was checked and corrected
The revised file's normalised columns were validated record by record against the applicant text. Most of it holds up; three faults were corrected before any figure on this page was calculated.
Applicant Type: file label vs validated category
First-named applicant. Highlighted cells are designs whose category changed.
| File's label | Univ./Inst./College | Company | Individual | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic / researcher | 2,485 | 29 | 7 | 2,521 |
| Company | 176 | 4,575 | 453 | 5,204 |
| Government / PSU | 1,861 | 124 | 26 | 2,011 |
| Individual | 192 | 243 | 722 | 1,157 |
| Validated total | 4,714 | 4,971 | 1,208 | 10,893 |
Corrections applied
- Applicant Type (3,111 designs re-labelled). 1,723 of the file's 2,011 "Government / PSU" designs are faculty or staff whose entry contains the word "Department", most of them at private institutions such as SRM and Vel Tech. Companies whose entry mentions a landmark ("near Indian Oil petrol pump") or legal wording ("incorporated in the state of Delaware") carry the same label. Categories now follow your definitions: University/Institute/College, Company, Individual Person.
- Country (20 designs). Samsonite IP Holdings (Luxembourg) and first applicants based in Ethiopia, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq, Poland, the UK and the US were recorded as India. One Indian applicant whose name contains "China" was recorded as China.
- Indian state (81 designs). 55 Punjab campuses (Chandigarh University at Gharuan, Chandigarh Group of Colleges at Landran, Chitkara at Rajpura; Punjab PIN 140xxx) were listed as Chandigarh. 26 spelling variants were merged ("Maharastra", "Uttarpradesh", "Jammu Kashmir", "...(UT)").
- Kept as supplied: issue, dates, prosecution days, Locarno class and subclass, priority fields. No duplicate rows or design numbers.
Method and caveats
Source. Revised Q1.xlsx, one sheet, 10,893 rows and 18 columns (14 journal fields plus First Applicant Country, All Countries, Indian States and Applicant Type). No duplicate rows or design numbers. Priority fields are populated for 969 rows.
Applicant names. The applicant column mixes names and addresses. Names were separated from addresses, numbered lists split into co-applicants, and spelling variants merged. Per-applicant counts are close but not exact.
Applicant type. Re-validated for every record with rules checked against 202 hand-researched records (all matched) and random samples (98% correct). Where the first applicant shows no affiliation but co-applicants do, the co-applicants' category is used.
Origin. Country and Indian state come from the file's First Applicant Country and Indian States columns (first-listed state), after the corrections listed under Data quality. 1,530 designs list applicants from more than one state; they are counted under the first.
Prosecution days. Taken as given in the source; it equals issue date minus Indian filing date. For convention filings this understates total time since the foreign first filing.
Benchmarks. National comparisons use the CGPDTM Annual Report 2024-25 (foreign share about 9.8%, priority claimed in about 7.8% of applications). Those are applications filed in a financial year; this dashboard counts registrations published in a calendar quarter.