As of 18 May 2015, the Icelandic Patent Office (ELS – IPO) has made their design data available to the Designview search tool. The integration of ELS – IPO is a concrete result of the International Cooperation programme managed by OHIM in collaboration with its international partners.
With ELS – IPO on-board, there are now 31 participating offices in Designview. With the addition of more than 3.500 industrial designs from ELS – IPO, Designview now provides information and access to more than 4,2 million designs in total.
Since the introduction of Designview on 19 November 2012, the tool has served about 935.000 searches from 137 different countries, with users from Spain, Germany and the UK among the most frequent visitors.
