Design
Registered designs, which can be filed as either aesthetic designs or as functional designs, protect the appearance of articles, and could be a powerful, cost-effective mechanism for protecting visual aspects of novel articles. Our team of design law experts advises on and protects designs for a wide range of clients operating in all major technical fields.
- Novelty, freedom-to-operate and validity advice
- Proprietor and inventor searches
- Preparation, filing and prosecution to registration of local and foreign design applications
- Local and foreign design renewals
- Assignments and licensing of designs
- Recordal of proprietor change of name and/or address
- Design infringement proceedings and related litigation
- Assist clients to design around third-party rights so to avoid infringement
- Design valuations
- Design portfolio management