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What is an Industrial Design? |
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Monday, 09 October 2006 08:33 |
A registered design is a monopoly right for the appearance of the whole or a part of a product resulting from the features of, in particular, the: lines, contours, colours, shape, texture materials of the product or its ornamentation.
To qualify for registration, your design must:
1. be new which means that it must not be the same as any design which has already been made available to the public,and
2. have individual character which means that the overall impression it produces on an informed user of the design must differ from the overall impression produced on such a user by any design which has already been made available to the public. In assessing individual character, we take into account the degree of freedom of the designer in creating the design.
We cannot register designs which are:
concerned only with how a product works, or
for parts of complex products that are not visible in normal use, or
contrary to law or morality.
Registration can last for a maximum of 25 years and is a property that, like any other business commodity, may be bought, sold, or licensed. A registered design is additional to any design right or copyright protection that may exist automatically in the design.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 April 2008 07:15 )
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