New options for filing industrial designs
January 16, 2019
Industrial designs, or design patents in the United States, provide protection for visual design of an item. Industrial designs can, therefore, serve as a valuable form of IP protection and may allow protection of aesthetic or “non-functional” aspects of a product that distinguish it in the marketplace…
Read MoreDesign Protection Should Not Be Overlooked
April 25, 2018
There are many options for intellectual property protection. One form of IP that is sometimes overlooked is design protection. Design protection can be a valuable part of an overall IP strategy. It can also act as a cost-effective alternative to utility patent protection in some scenarios. Design…
Read MorePotential Perils of Relying on Unregistered Intellectual Property Rights
May 02, 2017
Companies sometimes decide to forgo registering intellectual property rights and hope that they will have some protection under the law without having formally registered such rights. A recent case highlighted some of the perils in attempting to rely on unregistered intellectual property rights to…
Read MoreChanges to Canadian Industrial Design Practice
March 28, 2017
Industrial design registration remains an underutilized form of intellectual property protection. In Canada, an original industrial design can be registered to protect the look and appearance of a finished article. Unlike a patent, which protects the way an article is used or functions, an industrial…
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