Protect your product design from copying
Why should you register a design?
Protection
Competitive advantage
Distinctiveness
Financial benefits
How much does design registration cost?
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Design registration services
What is it?
An assessment of whether the design meets the criteria of novelty and individual character and can be registered. A search for earlier designs is also carried out.
Why is this necessary?
Our experts evaluate the suitability of the design for registration, determine the possible protest risks and the chances of defending your design registration in the event of a protest.
Deadline
7 working days
What is it?
This is the best and most appropriate protection for your product’s image. Our specialists analyse the specific situation and offer the most optimal design registration strategy. We help you choose the correct classes of products for the use of your design according to the international Locarno Classification. We prepare the necessary documents, perform the design registration, and administer the entire design registration process.
Why is this necessary?
Design registration provides the best and most appropriate protection for a product’s image (compared to other alternatives – copyright object protection, spatial trademark registration, and unregistered design).
Deadline
The design registration procedure takes 6–9 months.
What is it?
Our specialists monitor design validity periods, inform you in good time about the need to extend the validity, and prepare design protection extension documents.
Why is this necessary?
It is essential to know that a design is registered and protected for 25 years, but registration must be renewed once every 5 years.
Deadline
It is necessary to renew the design registration at least 6 months until the design registration expires.
What is it?
These are the possible procedures after design registration. We help you dispose of it: transfer, pledge or grant licences to other parties to use your intellectual property or part of it in respect of a certain territory or goods. We register changes to the design owner’s name or address in the official registers.
Why is this necessary?
By transferring, pledging or granting licences to others to use your intellectual property, the possibility of receiving financial benefits is ensured.
What is it?
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) together with the European Commission annually implements the SME Fund project – financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises protecting their intellectual property. Support is provided in the form of vouchers, which must be received before submitting an application. We advise on whether your company meets the conditions and help coordinate the receipt of support with registration actions.
Reimbursed:
up to 90% of the intellectual property pre-determination service (IP Scan)
up to 75% of trademark and design fees at EU and national level
up to 50% of trademark and design registration fees outside the EU
up to 75% of patent fees at EU and national level
Duration
Support is provided on the basis of an annually renewed call, for a limited period and a limited budget. Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, and funds for the most popular areas often run out before the end of the call itself. Contact us – we will check whether support is currently available and to what extent.
What is a design?
Design registration
Copyright object
Spatial trademark
Unregistered design
Registered design
Territorial protection
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