IP Hub: Create it - Search industrial designs databases

Looking for an industrial design registration? We offer you instructions in this section on how to search the databases. Once you are ready, click the next section on tools and start using the databases.

Canada

• Canadian Industrial Designs Database: Assistance

Europe

• DesignView – Video tutorial
• eSearch plus – Tutorials
• United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office – Find a registered design

World

• Global Design Database Help
• How to Search the International Register

Here are the databases on industrial designs around the world:

Canada

• Canadian Industrial Designs Database

Europe

• DesignClass
  DesignClass helps you to search and translate product indications needed to apply for design protection.
• DesignView
  Designview is a centralized access point to view the registered design information held by any of the participating national offices, in a unique presentation format, independently of which office the data is coming from. The design search tool will be based on the data of the registers of the participating offices, WIPO and the EUIPO.
• eSearch plus
  eSearch plus is the EUIPO's access to its database of European Union trademarks and registered community designs.
• United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office – Find a registered design

World

• Global Design Database
  Via a single, intuitive interface, the Global Design Database enables free, simultaneous searches of more than 5,300,000 industrial designs registered under the Hague System and/or in participating national collections.
• Hague Express Database

Here is a list of intellectual property (IP) experts who can provide you resources and information to advise you on how to search for IP:

Canadian Intellectual Property Office

• Client Service Centre
• IP advisors

IP agents

• College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents
• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada