An industrial design is the appearance of the whole or part of a product that derives from the special characteristics of lines, color, shape, texture, or material of the product.
There are two requirements for registering designs: A design has to be new, ie, that no other identical has been accessible to the public; and it has to have singular character, that is to say, that it has to produce in the user a new and a different reaction to that produced by any other design already in the market.
The protection of a design can be national, have effect throughout the European Union, or at an international level.