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Introduction; Design Registration; Registrability; Spare Parts; Scope of protection given by Design Registration; Protection for Industrial Designs abroad;
The Community Design Registration; The International Design Registration;
The Application for Design Registration; Ownership of Registered Designs; Unregistered Design Rights; UK Unregistered Design Right; Ownership of UK Unregistered Design Right; Unregistered Community Design; Copyright.
The Application for Design Registration
A UK national design application is filed at the British Patent Office in the same way as a patent application. No detailed specification is filed with the application. Just drawings showing the design to be registered. Grant of the registration usually takes place within a few - say three - months from filing.
The timing of the filing of a design application is critical: because the design registration is relatively narrow in scope, it is important that the drawings filed with the design show the very final form of the design - preferably exactly as it appears in the market place - otherwise the owner of the design is liable to find that his design registration does not cover the product he is trying to sell. Therefore, the filing of the design should be left for as long as possible so that the final design can be illustrated.
For registered designs, design right and copyright, contact Chris Boydell or
Sarah Perkins in our London office, or David Marles in our Bristol office.
A UK national design application is filed at the British Patent Office in the same way as a patent application. No detailed specification is filed with the application. Just drawings showing the design to be registered. Grant of the registration usually takes place within a few - say three - months from filing.
The timing of the filing of a design application is critical: because the design registration is relatively narrow in scope, it is important that the drawings filed with the design show the very final form of the design - preferably exactly as it appears in the market place - otherwise the owner of the design is liable to find that his design registration does not cover the product he is trying to sell. Therefore, the filing of the design should be left for as long as possible so that the final design can be illustrated.
For registered designs, design right and copyright, contact Chris Boydell or
Sarah Perkins in our London office, or David Marles in our Bristol office.