Industrial Design and Utility Model Services
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The fundamental distinction between design and utility patents: "visuals" (design) vs. "functionality" (utility). If you wish to protect your design’s aesthetics, you can file design patents. To protect technical functionality, you can file utility patents. It may be optimal to apply for both.
Through Abou Naja Intellectual Property’s pioneering Industrial Design Patent and Utility Model registry and access to jurisdictional databases, a thorough search is performed against the aesthetic nature of your design. Official search results are thoroughly evaluated against the tangible nature of your physical product to conclusively establish your design’s eligibility for an uncomplicated application with the local PTO. Our Attorneys simultaneously ensure that your design is indeed unique and does not infringe upon existing design patents.
Our Patent workforce implements procedural filing strategies that honour your designs’ aesthetic form and how extensively your design’s functionality can be gauged by the respective examiner. Our team of attorneys proceed to an official application once the search results are received and are non-problematic. We do this to ensure consistency with local PTO laws and to avoid chances of rejection. Our patent specialists proceed to oversee the application lifecycle through constant reviews and follow ups to warrant that you are swiftly granted a design patent.
Our patent experts enforce design portfolio maintenance strategies and forecast the evolution of your design as you gain bigger market shares. Through our meticulous design maintenance operation, we ensure that your industrial design rights are tended to through steady communication strategies that advise you on any threats of lapsing designs, upcoming deadlines of either an upcoming maintenance fee or the submission of requested credentials by local PTOs.
An industrial design or Utility Model possesses a transitory nature, meaning that the basis of it’s ownership can be changed, sold, assigned and even reallocated. Our recordal unit adeptly logs such crucial amendments in your design patents’ life cycle within all respective official registries and such operations are always enforced with evidential documentation.
The ornamental or functional nature of design and utility patents puts it at frequent risk of being countered. get contested Our litigation expertise enables us to trump all arbitrary claims via incoming oppositions that are aimed at hindering the final grant of your respective design patent. Abou Naja Intellectual Property will purposefully constrict the scope of all opposing claims and seek to invalidate allegations through timely filing of fact-based and verifiable counter arguments.
We are capable of identifying any violation against your patent, using state-of-the-art methods. Our patent litigation analysts take a highly professional and systematic approach towards design regulatory compliance and aggressive prosecution activities, which are critical for recouping corresponding to your patents' goodwill.
A design patent is protection that applies to a product’s aesthetic look and feel. It should not serve a functional purpose and must be purely ornamental.
A utility patent on the other hand, applies protection to a product’s functional capabilities, rather than it’s physical features.
Good To Know: Industrial Designs are also known as Design Patents.
Yes you can. As long as your invention fits your local patent office registration criteria.
Does my invention qualify for a Industrial Design or Utility Model?
For your invention to qualify for design or Utility Model, it must meet the following criteria:
Industrial design or Utility Model annuities are annual fees that are paid to your local patent office. They are also known as patent renewal or maintenance fees.
Failure to pay annuities before the predetermined deadline will revoke your ability to enjoy the rights accruable from the Industrial Design or Utility Model protection.
Industrial design or Utility Model recordals refer to an official record of all amendments made to your application such as change of ownership, changes in name and/or address of owner or license availability.
Industrial Design or Utility Model infringement refers to the unauthorised use of a patented invention, product or object.
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