Registered Designs

What is a Registered Design?

A Registered Design gives to the owner the exclusive right to make, sell, import for sale, hire or use any product to which the design (or a design not substantially different) has been applied.

Generally speaking registered designs or design patents protect the appearance of articles (although in the UK the design is not restricted to specific articles as in most other countries., and not the method of construction or functional features of the article.  Features of appearance that are dictated solely by function are not registerable. Furthermore, features of a product that enable the product to fit against another product so called ("must fit" features) may not be registerable.

Registered Designs are territorial in nature. For further information about foreign design procedures click the links below.

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