How IP Lawyers Can Help Me Protect a Design Feature In My Business

by

Tim Bishop

If you have designed a product which is entrepreneurial for your business, then you need expert advice from an IP lawyer immediately.

The design could be the handle of a jug or the shape in an ornament or product; it will most likely have been done by a machine during an industrial process. The design you have created should give the product a new appearance it should not merely related to the internal workings of the item which are out of view. Doesn’t it make sense that you should protect your design from others copying or stealing it? If your design was stolen think of the stress it will cause you having to deal with this threat to you business. Your design constitutes ‘Intellectual Property’ (often referred to as IP) and consulting experienced IP Lawyers for legal protection from infringement by others is a cost effective procedure. Having the know-how about IP rights and their protection is crucial to business success. Protection can usually be arranged both in Europe and globally and your IP Lawyers may be able to file a single application for UK and across Europe. A lawyer can register your design to give you a right on the manufactured appearance of your particular design feature. This can easily be renewed for a 5 year term up to 25 years. As soon as this is done your design is protected and therefore you have the right to prosecute those guilty of infringing it. Then your design becomes recognised and official Intellectual Property which, as with any other commodity in your business strategy, can be hired out, imported, sold or licensed. This becomes your exclusive, enforceable right for any article on which your design feature has been added. As the registered owner of the design, you are able to licence out the right to use the design to others. With the legal back of your specialist lawyers and the protection over the design that you have attained, you can start infringement proceedings against any unauthorised use – and therefore infringes – your design and you can get compensation for unauthorised use. A 3rd party may have copied your design and you can instruct your IP lawyer to begin legal infringement proceedings as soon as possible – and claim subsequent damages. Furthermore, the fact that a design is registered may be enough to deter any potential infringement.

Bonallack & Bishop are specialist

IP Lawyers

. If you need

intellectual property advice

contact one of their solicitors today. Tim Bishop is senior partner at the firm, responsible for all major strategic decisions. He has grown the firm by 1000% in 13 years and sees himself as a businessman who owns a law firm.

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