1. What does industrial design information include?
+ Technical information: information about a set of photos and drawings shown in the industrial design description;
+ Legal information: scope of protection shown in the protection request;
+ Industrial design information also includes: information about the applicant; application owner/license holder; single number/equal number; application date /certificate issuance date/; International classification of industrial designs…

2. Why is it necessary to searching industrial designs?
Through looking up industrial designs, individuals/organizations – collectively referred to as applicants – will have useful information related to the industrial designs they are interested in, specifically as follows:
+ Can determine the protection ability of the design;
+ Helps save time and costs in cases where after searching, it is found that filing an application for registration is not feasible (because there have been similar industrial designs previously filed), this helps the applicant avoid waste of time and effort;
+ Through looking up industrial design information, it will help customers avoid infringing on the industrial property rights of other subjects’ protected industrial designs;

3. Introducing some free industrial design search databases
Within the scope of this article, BIGPRO would like to introduce to customers a number of databases to look up industrial design information for free:

a. Searching industrial design information on Wipopulish database
This is the digital library on industrial property on the WIPO Publish platform: The digital library on industrial property on the WIPO Publish platform has been put into trial operation by the National Office of Intellectual Property since November 20, 2019, at the website On this website, users can search for information about applications for industrial design protection that have been published/granted protection certificates in Vietnam.
Link to access the wipopublish database:
http://wipopublish.ipvietnam.gov.vn/

b. Searching industrial design information on the WIPO database
This is WIPO’s industrial design information website. On this website, users can look up information on more than 2 million industrial design applications/patents, of which there are over 80,000 applications. /industrial design patent filed under the Hague Agreement.
Link to access the database:
https://designdb.wipo.int/designdb/en/index.jsp

c. Searching industrial design information on the EUIPO database
This is a website to look up industrial design information provided by EUIPO. In this search tool, users can look up about 10 million documents on industrial designs, collected by EUIPO from more than 60 countries. countries/organizations around the world, including member states of the European Union and applications filed through WIPO under the Hague Agreement.
Link to access the database:
https://www.tmdn.org/tmdsview-web/welcome#/dsview

Hopefully, the article shared above can provide customers with useful information to serve the process of looking up/finding information about industrial design applications/licenses. To save costs, customers/applicants can conduct their own searches for industrial design information on these databases.

However, in reality the search is quite complicated, requires a combination of many skills, requires solid knowledge of the related technical field combined with search experience, so for the search to be effective, Customers can refer to BIGPRO’s search service before deciding to apply for protection

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