Design Registration

Design Registration

• Safety from misuse
• Design Registration process prevents other entities from producing, selling or distributing products having identical designs.
• Expandable validity
• A Design registration is valid for a period of 10 years. This validity period can be extended up to 5 more years.
• Unique Selling Point
• Design registration gives an entity a Unique Selling Point, which means that its product gets unique identity from that of the competitors.
• Protects Originality
• The registered designs are universally unique and they are not earlier published in any nation and were also not known in India before.
• Induces Client Response
• An important criterion for registering a design is that it should appeal to and is judged solely by the eye.
• Promotes Creativity
• Design registration requires a product to be appealing and unique from all others, and this promotes creativity and boosts competition.

What Is Design Registration

• Various Industrial Designs are registered and protected through the process of Design in India. The Procedure of Design Registration is administered under the Designs Act-2000 and the corresponding Designs Rules-2001.

Importance of Design Registration

• The Industrial design indicates the creation of new and genuine features of that are recognised by Unique, Shape, Configuration, Patterns, Decoration and combination of lines or colours applied. A Unique Design in its finished state appeals to the eye and is judged by the clients in a positive manner. Given below are the Objectives of Design Registration.
• To Make effective and convenient legal system or Protection of Designs in India from being Misused.
• To Encourage and Develop Creativity and Originality
• It is a necessary Compliance of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement Between the WTO Member Nations,

PROCESS OF DESIGN REGISTRATION

• Upload required documents & information of the article on our web portal.
• Consult our business advisor regarding design registration form.
• Our professional will verify the validity of documents & Information provided.
• On Confirmation, make online payment with different payments modes available.
• The design registration form will be filled as per the details of your product.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

1. Title of Work
2. Design 4 Views of Design from a Different angle
3. Description of Work
4. Form-24 in prescribed format(if small entity status is claimed) with evidence of registration under MSME Act, 2006 in case of Indian entities or affidavit deposed by the applicant or authorised signatory in case of Foreign entities.
5. Original Priority document under Rule 15 of The Designs Rules.
6. Application Form No 1
7. Authenticated English translated copy of the Priority document (if original priority document is other than English)
8. Representations in duplicate
9. Assignment in original (if the applicant of priority application in convention country is different from Indian applicant)
10. Power of authority/General Power of authority) in original