Design Registration

Design registration protects the visual appearance of a product - its shape, configuration, pattern or ornamentation - rather than its function. It is essential for manufacturers, furniture brands, packaging companies and consumer product businesses.

Typically 6 to 9 months from filing to registration.

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Benefits of Design Registration

  • Exclusive rights over the product's appearance
  • Protection for 10 years, extendable to 15
  • Legal remedy against imitation products
  • Strengthens brand differentiation
  • Adds valuable IP to the balance sheet
  • Licensing and franchising opportunities

Required documents

  • Representation sheets from all views
  • Applicant identity and address proof
  • Statement of novelty
  • Power of attorney (Form-21)
  • MSME certificate for fee concession
  • Priority document for convention applications

Process

How Design Registration works with Impleton

  1. 01

    Novelty search and eligibility check

  2. 02

    Locarno classification of the design

  3. 03

    Preparation of design representations

  4. 04

    Filing Form-1 with the Design Office

  5. 05

    Examination and objection reply

  6. 06

    Registration and publication in the journal

Eligibility

  • The design must be new and original
  • It must not have been published anywhere before filing
  • It must be applied to an article by an industrial process
  • It must appeal to and be judged solely by the eye
  • It must not include any functional feature only

Compliance Standards

Specialised Design Registration Frameworks

Explore relevant certification frameworks.

Design Registration

Industrial Design Registration India

Designs Act 2000

FAQs

Design Registration — Frequently Asked Questions

A design protects how a product looks. A patent protects how a product works or a new technical invention.
No. Prior publication or public disclosure destroys novelty, so file before launching the product.

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