Designs

Our team is here to give you expert guidance on strategy, timing and costs to ensure that your product designs are protected in key markets. As design registrations are territorial by nature, design protection may be required in different countries. Our attorneys have in-depth experience in this field, and also work with trusted overseas agents to secure design protection the world over.

Furthermore, we proactively conduct thorough freedom-to-operate assessments to identify and mitigate the risk of infringing third-party design rights, ensuring your new product launches are commercially secure and litigation-free.

Design laws have been established around the world to protect the look and shape of a product. In the UK, automatic protection may be available on the creation of any new design. However, not all countries acknowledge such rights, and it is therefore advisable to take positive steps to register a design, because registered rights are generally easier to enforce. We can advise on which aspects of a product may be protectable and how those identified aspects may best be represented to maximise protection.

Securing your rights