Indian Designs Journal, issues 2026-01 to 2026-13 (2 Jan to 27 Mar 2026), revised and normalised dataset

10,893 designs registered in Q1, split almost evenly between companies and universities.

An action brief for the first quarter, built on the revised dataset: who is protecting product designs in India, what they protect, where filings originate, how long registration takes, and what to do about it.

What leadership should take from Q1

Whole-quarter findings. The charts below respond to the filters; these statements do not.

Recommended actions

What each finding implies for an IP practice or design-portfolio team. Owner and timing are suggestions.

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.TitleFirst applicantType OriginClassIssueDays