To develop and maintain a website in order to effectively share—with each other and with users—primary information concerning each Partner’s design regimes and shared priorities, as well as the details and progress of various cooperative projects.

To determine the feasibility and implementation timelines for Partners joining the WIPO Digital Access Service (DAS) based priority document exchange system and/or SIPO’s Verifiable Priority Document (VPD) system.

This project compares the provisions and practices of the ID5 Partner Offices and the Hague System regarding specific tools and legal effects that can postpone the publication of designs and restrictions on enforcement of the rights under the unpublished condition. How the applicant decides when to publish the design varies by jurisdiction: Deferment of initiation of examination at the application stage, deferment of publication after registration, providing predictable examination period provided by the office. In this project, we take into account all the methods that can delay the aforementioned publication of industrial design applications or industrial design rights. The purpose of this catalogue is to promote users’ understanding of each jurisdiction’s design publication deferment system and use it in design management strategies.

According to the progress and study results, the ID5 offices can also discuss the possibility of sharing some information with the public, or conducting further study, such as implementing information sharing on some specific subjects of common interests in quality management.

The aim of the project “Study of Term of Protection and the Manner and Framework for Obtaining that Term of Protection for Industrial Design rights” is to compare the provisions and different practices related to the various terms of protection for industrial designs. The purpose will be to identify where legal frameworks and office practices meet user needs to protect industrial design and to identify where legal frameworks and office practices could potentially be enhanced.

This document was compiled to present an overall look into the wide variety of projects undertaken by the ID5. This includes finalised projects and ongoing projects alike. Here we briefly detail the main aspects of each. The achievements have been structured around five main themes agreed on at the inception of the founding projects. The initiatives at the heart of these themes are aimed at advancing and modernising the industrial design system.

The aim of the project “Remedies for Industrial Design Infringement” is to give an overview of the available remedies and relief for industrial design infringement for each of the Partners, and how this remedy/relief is determined.