While design patents are gaining wider attention—thanks in part to the highly-publicized litigation involving Samsung and Apple—they still remain an underutilized form of intellectual property (IP) ...

Is there anything wrong with knocking-off a 50-year-old design? Tony Ash, managing director of Vitra, thinks so. Ash has written an opinion piece over at Dezeen, arguing for stricter design protection ...

What is a design patent? Although trademarks and copyrights most frequently come to mind when considering the types of intellectual property protection available for fashion items, design patents can ...

Industrial Design protection is provided for a shape, configuration, surface pattern, colour, or line (or a combination of these), which, when applied to a functional article, produces or increases ...

This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight Design protection has taken on an increasingly important role in recent years, ...

Sarah Wright and Kaisa Patsalides explore whether designs originating from the UK can still qualify for EU design rights in a post-Brexit world, in light of conflicting interpretations among EU courts ...

Protection Strategy The possibility of protecting a product design through other forms of intellectual property vehicles in addition to an industrial design should be considered on a case by case ...

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