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What is a registered design right and is it right for you?<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For practically all customer-facing products – whether a new software application or a physical product –  design and product appearance is vitally important.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A registered design is a form of IP right used for protecting the aesthetics of a design. Once a design is validly registered, it can generally be used to prevent anyone else using the same or a similar design. Registered designs offer a cost-effective way of protecting your IP and also offer (in the UK and Europe) a relatively long term of up to 25 years.  Registered designs can be used to provide IP protection for products for which patent protection is not possible, or may instead offer a useful complement to patent protection.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, protection can be focused on particular areas of a design, or on particular aspects such as a shape.  Creative use of the registered design system can augment the IP protection available for your product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12,516<\/p>

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Our specialists in design rights understand how best to utilise the various design systems in order to protect your product.  Whether it\u2019s the shape, colour or material of a product that matters, our team will work to protect your designs and to ensure that they are registered effectively. We have a large and well-established designs practice which has helped numerous household names secure strategic protection for their designs internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have particular expertise in obtaining broad design protection for features that pervade product lines, as well as significant experience in obtaining design protection for user interfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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