Designs
With product designers among our team of specialists, we have the deep knowledge and specialist expertise to ensure your designs get both the legal protections and the commercial recognition they deserve.
Among all the different elements of intellectual property (IP) protection, the value of design rights is often underestimated. This is a serious omission, because these rights can be powerful, with the potential to secure lucrative competitive advantage in crowded markets.
To do this right, a specialist approach is needed, and our design team has the granular-level understanding of how to secure broad and robust protection in a cost-effective way.
From furniture and fashion to machinery and medical devices, and from packaging to components… we have worked with a wide range of clients to protect and defend their design rights, and to create strategies that maximise commercial potential too.
Talk to us about protecting and commercialising your design rights today.
Key Areas of Expertise
Securing registered design rights
Registered design rights have the potential to be highly valuable assets. To fulfil your commercial ambitions, our comprehensive service offering includes:
- Conducting online searches.
- Filing for registered design protection in the UK and EU, as well as worldwide through our foreign design attorney network.
- Prosecuting design rights in UK and EU courts.
Registered design rights have the potential to be highly valuable assets. To fulfil your commercial ambitions, our comprehensive service offering includes:
- Conducting online searches.
- Filing for registered design protection in the UK and EU, as well as worldwide through our foreign design attorney network.
- Prosecuting design rights in UK and EU courts.
Defending & enforcing your design rights
In the event of a dispute, our multidisciplinary team of design specialists and IP solicitors will construct a precise and compelling case to protect your commercial interests.
In the event of a dispute, our multidisciplinary team of design specialists and IP solicitors will construct a precise and compelling case to protect your commercial interests.
Resolving ownership issues
Collaboration is commonplace in product design, but can lead to a lack of clarity or even litigation when it comes to determining the rightful owner of valuable design rights. We can help you avoid conflict in the first place or resolve issues in a commercially sensitive way.
Collaboration is commonplace in product design, but can lead to a lack of clarity or even litigation when it comes to determining the rightful owner of valuable design rights. We can help you avoid conflict in the first place or resolve issues in a commercially sensitive way.
Unregistered rights
These automatic rights can give you competitive advantage when enforced, but determining ownership can be complicated. Our experts can advise on what qualifies for protection and how to confirm the date of creation if ownership rights are claimed.
These automatic rights can give you competitive advantage when enforced, but determining ownership can be complicated. Our experts can advise on what qualifies for protection and how to confirm the date of creation if ownership rights are claimed.
Best practice policies & procedures
Our specialist team can help in establishing policies and procedures to ensure you can assert your design rights. Our tailored training courses will give your teams a clear, practical grasp of how to ensure your design IP is nurtured at an operational level for the long term.
Our specialist team can help in establishing policies and procedures to ensure you can assert your design rights. Our tailored training courses will give your teams a clear, practical grasp of how to ensure your design IP is nurtured at an operational level for the long term.
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