Design Rights
The protection of product designs and their specific design elements through registered design rights has been increasing in importance for many years and has become, next to general competition law, one of the most important instruments against unlawful imitation. Design protection before the EUIPO or the German Patent and Trademark Office is therefore an essential prerequisite for the successful start of marketing new products.
Our range of advice comprises:
- Design searches
- Development of design and design elements strategies
- Worldwide design registration proceedings
- Representation in registration proceedings before EUIPO and the German Patent and Trademark Office
- Representation in all nullity/cancellation proceedings before the EUIPO and German Patent and Trademark Office
- Representation in design infringement proceedings before national courts and coordination of such proceedings abroad