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Trademark & IP

Design Registration

Protect the look of your article—drawings, Locarno class, and novelty arguments done to examiner taste.

Protect the visual appearance of products—shape, pattern, or ornamentation. We prepare representations, classify designs correctly, file applications, and manage publication and opposition stages.

Typical timeline

Months unless objections; faster than many TM files

Term

Initial 10 years extendable by renewal in prescribed windows

Process

Artwork → application → examination → registration

FAQs

Partial designs?

We advise dashed-line vs solid-line conventions to protect only novel portions.

Functional features?

Design law excludes purely functional shapes—we screen before filing fees burn.