EUIPO Design Invalidity Analytics
Who wins EU design invalidity, what kills designs, and who decides.
Every published EUIPO design-invalidity decision since 2018, distilled into the hard numbers the register never exposes: which firms win, what prior art actually kills a design, and how each Board of Appeal panel rules. Know the odds before you file or defend. 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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