It is therefore important to carefully protect your design by registering it with the authorities. Registration protects the shape and look of a whole or a part of a product. Additionally, it is possible to protect graphic design, displays, websites, interior designs and typographic characters.
Design registration provides the owner with sole and exclusive right of the design and it prevents others from exploiting the design without authorisation. The registration is valid for 25 years which offers the owner sufficient time to exploit the design commercially.
Moreover, the registration can form a good basis for entering into an agreement with others, e.g., by cooperating on commercialising the product, licensing and possible transfer of rights. In most professional connections, the registration is a prerequisite for actual cooperation.
Savic Patentanwälte offers a wide range of services relating to designs:
- Preparation of design strategies
- Pre-filing searches regarding existing rights, identity and use
- Registration of design
- Monitoring
- Identification and evaluation of infringement
- Preparation of license contracts and licensing strategies
- Counselling concerning licensing negotiations
- Legal counselling and procedure