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Designs filed in Singapore by Country and Classification

Designs filed in Singapore by Country of Applicant

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Designs filed in Singapore by Country of Applicant

Data from Jan 2013 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:27 SGT

IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore)

Top 5 Designs Filing Countries in 2017

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DesignsfiledinSingaporebyCountryofApplicant.csv (316 rows, 6.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Applicant Country Text	Design filings Numeric	Rank Numeric
(Null)0.0% 201310.4% 201510.8% 201711.4% 201910.4%	(Null)0.0% China3.2% India3.2% Italy3.2% Japan3.2%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 175.7% 187.0% 196.6% 205.7%
2013	Singapore	718	1
2013	Japan	315	2
2013	United States of America	217	3
2013	Republic of Korea	124	4
2013	Germany	54	5
2013	China	40	6
2013	Sweden	32	7
2013	Hong Kong SAR	31	8
2013	United Kingdom	25	9
2013	Malaysia	24	10

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Applicant Country	applicant_country	Text	-	-
Design filings	design_filings	Numeric	-	-
Rank	rank	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_da9007fbad9ecb00efad872c6522c99c"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. (2018). Designs filed in Singapore by Country of Applicant (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 3, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_da9007fbad9ecb00efad872c6522c99c/view

About this dataset

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IPOS_Enquiry@ipos.gov.sg

Created on

27 Aug 2018

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore)