Design patent/design application

Are you active in design and wish to protect a 2 or 3-dimensional design, e.g., a graphic or a product? Does your manufacturing company also engage in creative work and regularly develop new product designs? A design is of great economic importance for the value of many products and distinguishes your products from those of competitors. It is therefore all the more important to protect the design from imitators and free riders.

Offer for Design Application

The registration of designs (formerly and still referred to as utility models in some jurisdictions) is a fast, effective, and comparatively inexpensive way to monopolize your two- or three-dimensional designs, e.g., for furniture, clothing, wallpaper, accessories, jewelry, watches, fabric patterns, or the graphic design of a company logo, for up to 25 years and thereby exclude third parties from using your designs.

Besides trademarks, registered designs are often a useful addition or alternative for filing technical intellectual property rights such as patents and utility models.

The registration of a design initially only has a declarative effect, as the respective office does not examine the requirements for protection, such as novelty and individual character, upon registration. This has the advantage that registered designs can be applied for very quickly and comparably inexpensively.

We will advise you in detail on the advantages and disadvantages of registering designs. Since registered designs are unregistered protective rights, where the existence of a design is only revealed in the event of a dispute, a clarification of the protection requirements is particularly important.

Scope of protection of the industrial design/design patent application

• Consultation on design protection options
• Advice regarding the prerequisites for design protection
• Consultation on the formal application procedure and requirements of the respective patent and trademark office
• Compilation of the application documents and (electronic) submission of the application documents to the respective trademark office
• Processing of fee payment with the respective patent and trademark office
• Handling correspondence and communication with the trademark office and, where applicable, with foreign correspondence attorneys.
• Deadline monitoring and reminders before the expiration of the protection period

Costs of a Design Patent Application

We offer brand registrations at attractive flat rates. We would be pleased to submit a quote to you.