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
- 01
Novelty search and eligibility check
- 02
Locarno classification of the design
- 03
Preparation of design representations
- 04
Filing Form-1 with the Design Office
- 05
Examination and objection reply
- 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
FAQs
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