DesignVerdict · EUIPO Design Invalidity Analytics
Who wins EU design invalidity, what kills designs, and who decides.
Every published EUIPO Registered Community Design invalidity decision, 2018–2026, read into a structured record — parties, representatives, prior art, panels, outcomes and costs the EUIPO register never exposes. No other tool computes this.
What you get
Four analytics surfaces over the same source-of-truth corpus. Every number links back to the underlying decisions.
Decision analytics
Outcome rates, legal grounds, Locarno-class mix and appeal pipeline — filterable by year, class, ground, country and regime.
Open →Representative win rates
Firm-level league tables on both sides — who acts, who wins, and who they face. Win rates vary sharply by firm; who you instruct moves the odds.
Open →Prior-art intelligence
What actually kills designs, by evidence type — and the web-source map the register can't see, led by Amazon at 620 invalidations.
Open →Board of Appeal rapporteurs
Who decides design appeals, and how often their panel reverses — from 2% to 54%, against a 24% Board average.
Open →Plus full-text search across recovered party and firm names, and saved searches with new-decision alerts.
What the data shows
- Who you instruct changes the odds. → Among the most active applicant-side firms, merits win rates vary sharply — see the leaderboard.
- Amazon is the #1 design killer. → 620 invalidations cite an Amazon listing as prior art; web disclosures lead every other category.
- The rapporteur is real signal. → Appeal reversal rates run from 2% to 54% depending on the panel's decision-lead.
- China files the most challenges. → CN is the #1 applicant country at first instance, ahead of Germany.
Who it's for
Boutique & specialist IP firms
Credible, citable win-rate and prior-art data for client pitches and case strategy — the numbers you can't get from the register.
High-volume correspondents
Opponent intelligence at a glance: who you're up against, their track record, and how similar designs have fallen before.
In-house design counsel
Brief outside counsel fast with the other side's history, the odds on appeal, and the prior-art patterns in your sector.
From the blog
All articles →EU Design Invalidity Success Rates in 2026: What 4,600 Decisions Show
The only invalidation rate in public circulation is six years old. Here is the current figure from the full EUIPO corpus — 69.3% on the merits — as the design reform's new invalidity regime arrives.
What Actually Kills an EU Design: Prior Art by Disclosure Type
Crocs fell to a Wayback capture; Axon to a marketplace listing. Across the whole corpus, 56.5% of invalidations cite a web disclosure — and Amazon leads them all, with 620.
How Often Does the EUIPO Board of Appeal Reverse a Design Invalidity Decision?
Just under a quarter of substantive design appeals reverse the first instance — but the rate runs from 2% to 54% depending on which rapporteur leads the panel.
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