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Design

Why should you register your design?
Protection
You will create and protect your business identity, and protect the funds invested in the development of your design in markets of your choice.
Competitive advantage
You will become unique and be protected against the use of a similar or identical design in markets of your choice.
Reputation
You will gain a reputation as a reliable manufacturer and promote your values pertaining to your unique design.
Financial benefits
You will receive financial benefits if you grant franchises or licenses or assign rights to your design to other persons.
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Design registration services
Evaluation of registration opportunities

What is it?

 

We assess whether the design meets the criteria of novelty and individual characteristics and can be registered. We also conduct a search for previous designs.

 

 

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

 

Design registration

What is it?

 

We analyze 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 design registration, and administer the entire design registration process.

 

 

Why is this necessary?

 

Design registration provides the best protection for the product’s image (compared to

other alternatives – copyright object protection, spatial trademark registration,

and unregistered design).

 

 

Duration

 

The design registration procedure takes ~ 6 months.

 

Registration extension

What is it?

 

We monitor design validity periods, timely inform you about the need to extend the validity and prepare design protection extension documents.

 

 

Why is this necessary?

 

It is essential to know that the design is registered and stored for 25 years, but one must extend registration once every 5 years.

 

 

Deadline

 

It is necessary to extend the validity of the design registration at least 6 months in until the design registration expires.

 

Amendments, licenses, transfer of rights

What is it?

 

We carry out specific procedures after design registration and help dispose of it: to transfer, pledge or grant licenses for others to use your intellectual property or part of it in considering a chosen territory or goods. We register changes to the design owner’s name or address in the official registers.

 

 

Why is this necessary?

 

Transferring, pledging, or granting licenses for others to use your intellectual property ownership ensures the possibility of receiving financial benefits.

 

Consulting about funding opportunities

What is it?

 

Small and medium-sized enterprises/start-ups receive support for the protection of intellectual property from the SME Fund. The SME fund “Ideas Powered for Business” is an initiative of the European Commission, implemented by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), with a budget of 16 million euros in 2022. The applications for compensation can be submitted by all small and medium-sized companies established in the EU. One company can claim support of up to 2,250 euros.

 

 

Why is this necessary?

 

Companies are invited to apply for reimbursement of part of the expenses by recovering up to 75 % trademark filing and registration fees at national, regional and EU level, or 50% may also be reimbursed from trademark taxes outside the EU. Our intellectual property experts can take care of the entire support process. We are constantly looking for ways to reduce your costs for intellectual property protection.

 

Evaluation of registration opportunities
Design registration
Registration extension
Amendments, licenses, transfer of rights
Consulting about funding opportunities
Design definition

A design is the image of a product or part thereof consisting of specific properties of the product and/or its specific ornamental properties such as lines, contours, colors, shape, texture and/or material. A design is intended to distinguish your product from other products available on the market and provides added value to your product.

 

To protect the design’s uniqueness, it is advisable to register your design. Registration grants the exclusive right to use the design and prevents other persons from using your work and receiving financial benefits in a specified territory.

Design registration

A design may be registered and protected if it is novel and has individual character. This means that no other identical design must be publicly available before the date of submission of your application to the patent office and that the overall impression of the design created for consumers differs from the overall impression created by any other design. A design qualifies as identical to another design if its properties differ only slightly from those of another design. Furthermore, a design that you wish to register may not contain a third party trademark or official state symbols.

 

The image of a product may be protected in several ways: as an object of copyright, as a three-dimensional trademark, as an unregistered design and as a registered design. Registration of a design guarantees the best and most appropriate protection for the image of a product.

The product image can be protected in several ways:
Copyright object
Spatial trademark
Not registered design
Registered design
National
Community
International
National
The protection of a design registered nationally is valid in a specific country (e.g. Lithuania) pursuant to national legislation. The owner of a national design is granted the exclusive rights that prohibit third parties from using an identical or similar product design in the relevant country.
Community
The protection of a design registered on the level of the European Community is valid in all countries of the European Union. With the EU expanding, the protection of Community designs automatically extends to new Member States. The owner of a Community design is granted the exclusive rights that prohibit third parties from using an identical or similar product design in any one Member State.
International
The protection of a design registered internationally is valid in the selected countries that signed the Hague Agreement. To date, 64 countries have joined the Hague Agreement. International registration of your design provides you with an opportunity to select several individual countries that are of most relevance to you. The owner of an international design is granted the exclusive rights that prohibit third parties from using an identical or similar product design in selected countries of the Hague Agreement.
Hague Convention Countries
Andora
Argentina
Armenia
Austria
Australia
Bahamas
Belgium
Belize
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Estonia
Ecuador
El Salvador
Fiji
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Iceland
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
Morocco
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
New Zealand
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Poland
Protugal
Romania
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Serbia
Sweden
Singapore
Slovenia
Slovakia
San Marino
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
Switzerland
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Venezuela
Zimbabwe
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