The Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) of Lao People’s Democratic Republic has made its trade mark and design data available to the TMview and DesignView search tools.With Lao on board of TMview and DesignView, both tools now contain data from 69 participating offices.With the addition of more than 46,000 trade marks from Lao DIP, TMview provides information and access to more than 53.3 million trade marks in total. DesignView contains more than 14.5 million designs, including 491 designs from Lao DIP.