The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) has been integrated into the DesignView database, making approximately 700 000 French designs, dating from 1910 to the present day, available to its users.
The French and Maltese offices are the 14th and 15th offices, respectively, to become part of DesignView, joining Benelux, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden and OHIM.
After these latest integrations, the total number of designs in the tool stands at around 2 million.
