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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.
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.
In the registration of an industrial design a single application is valid for multiple designs of the same class.
Designs are granted for periods of five years from their application date and may be extended for a maximum period of twenty-five years.
The protection of a design can be national, have effect throughout the European Union, or at an international level.
- Community Designs allow you to register your design in the European Union in a single application.
- International Designs allow you to register your design in up to 68 Member States of the Hague Agreement in a single application.Click here to see the list of countries that can be included in these requests.