A remarkable success story: the registered community design

When the first registered community design (RCD) applications were filed on April 1, 2003, no-one could have foreseen the resounding success of the system during the years that followed. In that first year alone some 40,500 applications for RCDs were filed with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)—far more than the management of the OHIM had expected. Some 10 years later, more than 690,000 applications have been filed.