Design Protection and Portfolio Management

Innovative product design merits protection. We help you identify and secure rights in design features involving the appearance of a product or its ornamentation, all the way from shape to colour and get-up. We advise on:

• which features to protect, where, when and why
• the impact of disclosure and grace periods
• unregistered design rights
• length of registered and unregistered monopolies
• effective protection strategies in markets of interest or worldwide
• commercial exploitation of design rights, including licensing and licences of right

Design protection now embraces features like labels and get-up that used to be protectable only as trade marks or copyright matter. We can identify these features and are experienced at outlining protection strategies that derive maximum advantage from the different options available.