An industrial design is an ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an object. A design may consist of 3D features, such as the shape or surface of an object, or of 2D features, such as lines, contours, colours, shape, form etc. Industrial designs are applied to a wide variety of products of industry and handicraft: from housewares and electrical appliances to vehicles and architectural structures; from technical and medical instruments to watches, jewelry, and other luxury items; from textile designs to leisure products.
Our firm provides a range of services in unregistered and registered designs to help clients protect their designs, including conducting design searches and filing, prosecution and registering designs at home and abroad. Particularly our design services are:
- Pre-filing Design Searches
- Design Application Filing: Conventional and Non-conventional
- Design Application Prosecution
- Renewals
- Portfolio Management
- Recordation of Assignments and Licensing
- Cancellation Actions
- Defending against Cancellation Petitions
- Infringement and Passing off actions
Other services:
Trademarks
We provide a complete range of trade mark services including trade mark searches, filing, prosecution, registration and opposition, as well as trade mark portfolio management.
Patents
Our firm advises local and foreign inventors or owners of inventions through drafting, filing with the Patent Office and prosecuting patent applications on their behalf.
Copyrights
A copyright protects literary works, musical, dramatic, choreographic, pictorial or graphic, audiovisual or architectural work, or a sound recording, from being reproduced…