Design right

The term 'design right' refers to the specific legal protection available to unregistered designs in the UK.

Designing history: part 2

Nicola Searle, 9 August 2013 - Design right, IP research

In part two of our series on the history of design rights, we look at the decision to register a design right. Registered design rights are relatively underused in the...

Designing history: part 1

Nicola Searle, 2 July 2013 - Design right, IP research

This year, the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market (OHIM) celebrated 10 years of the Community Design. The event celebrated a relatively new development in IP - the...