Industrial Designs
Safeguarding the Aesthetic Value of Your Products
An industrial design constitutes the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an article. An industrial design may consist of three-dimensional features, such as the shape of an article, or two-dimensional features, such as patterns, lines or colour.
An industrial design is one of the key forms of intellectual property (IP) protection.
An industrial design constitutes the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an article. An industrial design may consist of three-dimensional features, such as the shape of an article, or two-dimensional features, such as patterns, lines or colour.
It refers to the visual design of objects—such as the shape, configuration, pattern, or ornamentation applied to an article.
Examples
- The shape of a Coca-Cola bottle.
- The design of a chair, lamp, or smartphone body.
- Patterns and ornamentation on textiles, footwear, or jewelry.
Industrial design search is the preferred and safer step (non-mandatory) before registering industrial design before the design registry office, as this will limit the possibility of rejection of the grant of industrial design.
Although the IP offices of most of the countries make this database available online, they will not help you comprehensively to determine whether your design is registrable in advance of filing an application; thus, you may consider entrusting us. At AWALNUT IPR, we do provide design search services by accessing jurisdictional databases and by performing a thorough search against the aesthetic nature of your design.
Our patent workforce implements procedural filing strategies that honor your designs' aesthetic form and how extensively your design's functionality can be gauged by the respective examiner. Our team of attorneys proceeds to an official application once the search results are received and are non-problematic. We do this to ensure consistency with local IP laws and to avoid chances of rejection. Our patent specialists proceed to oversee the application lifecycle through constant reviews and follow-ups to warrant that you are swiftly granted a design patent.
An industrial design or utility model recordals refer to an official record of all amendments made to your application such as change in ownership, changes in name and or address of owner or license availability. At AWALNUT IPR we do provide active support for the same.
In order to maintain the registration, right holders must pay a maintenance fee. Our IP/patent experts enforce design portfolio maintenance strategies. Through our meticulous design maintenance operation, we ensure that your industrial design rights are preserved through steady communication strategies that advise you on any threats of lapsing designs or upcoming deadlines of either an upcoming maintenance fee or the submission of requested credentials by the local IP office.
Registered designs are published in the design gazette right after registration. After the publication, any party who thinks that the design should not have been accepted into the Designs register can file an opposition against the design.
Our litigation expertise at AWALNUT IPR can help you safeguard your design as well as can provide other design litigation services.
A collection of intellectual property rights is called an intellectual property, or IP, portfolio. It's more important than ever to effectively manage an IP portfolio and managing an IP portfolio the right way can improve your efficiency and give you a competitive edge in today's marketplace. In order to do so, we at AWALNUT IPR assist you for IP portfolio building as well as management.