Law of Designs - Practical Routes to Success

Introduction

This new virtual classroom seminar will focus on how to use registered designs to protect your client’s business.

Registered designs are a cost-effective, powerful tool to protect the look and feel of products, designs, and user interfaces. However, they are often underutilised and poorly understood by businesses, and the law and practice around the world is relatively unharmonised.

This makes it challenging to protect a product effectively whilst ensuring the design is broad and robust enough to prevent third parties from producing similar designs.

The session will look at practical aspects of registered designs, and will cover preparing and filing design applications.

In relation to preparation and filing, the session will cover how to identify designs to protect, how to select the most appropriate scope of protection for a design, and how to ensure that representations are suitable for ‘light-touch’ worldwide protection.

It will involve some discussion of the law and recent cases but also practical matters arising from the law to maximise protection and mitigate any issues at different patent offices.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• Identifying scope of design to protect
• Protecting parts, colour and specific aspects of products
• Maximising scope of protection
• Differences in law and practice in different jurisdictions
• Preparing representations to minimise problems around the world
• Avoiding objections and dealing with formal requirements

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.