Registered Design Protection for Product Innovation
Secure protection for the visual appearance of your products across the UK, European Union, and international markets.
EUIPO | UKIPO | Polish Patent Office
18+ Years IP Experience
Trusted by product innovators, manufacturers, and design-driven brands across Europe.
What is a Registered Design?
A registered design protects the visual appearance of a product, including its shape, configuration, patterns, colours, and ornamentation. Unlike patents, which protect technical innovations, design rights protect how a product looks rather than how it works.
Design protection is particularly valuable for businesses that invest in product aesthetics, packaging, and user-facing design.
Examples of Designs
• product shapes
• packaging designs
• graphical user interfaces
• furniture designs
• fashion items
• consumer electronics
Why Design Protection Matters
Prevent Copying
Stop competitors from copying your product design.
Market Differenitation
Protect the distinctive appearance of your products.
Competitive Advantage
Strengthen your position in design-driven markets.
Business Asset
Design rights can be licensed or sold.
Fast Protection
Registered designs can be obtained quickly in many jurisdictions.
Global Recognition
Design protection can extend across multiple markets.
Types of Designs We Protect
Product Designs
Fashion & Accessories
We safeguard the unique physical form, contours, and aesthetic features of consumer goods, hardware, and furniture components across global markets.
Digital Interfaces
Securing Registered Design rights for Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), app icons, screen layouts, and dynamic animations in the digital space.
Protecting the unique lines of garments, luxury handbags, jewelry collections, and footwear designs from fast-fashion infringement.
Packaging Solutions
Protection for innovative bottle shapes, container designs, and retail packaging visual identifiers that distinguish your brand on crowded shelves.
Industrial Designs
Focusing on the technical aesthetics of industrial machinery, specialized tools, and manufacturing apparatus to prevent unauthorized industrial replication.
Graphic Symbols & Items
Statutory protection for typographic logos, repeat surface patterns (textiles/wallpapers), and map symbols that define your intellectual property assets.
Our Design Protection Services
Design Availability Searches
Comprehensive availability searches across national and international databases to identify prior designs and assess the registrability of your new product appearance.
Design Filing & Registration
End-to-end management of the application process with the EUIPO, UKIPO, and WIPO, ensuring technical drawings and representations meet strict institutional standards.
Design Enforcement & Infringement
Strategic defense of your design rights against unauthorized copying. We handle cease and desist letters, cancellation proceedings, and litigation support.
Design Portfolio Strategy
Developing a global roadmap for your IP assets, optimizing costs while maximizing jurisdictional coverage for your most innovative product lines.
Design Renewals & Maintenance
Automated monitoring of renewal deadlines across multiple registries to ensure your design protections never lapse unintentionally.
Digital & UI Protection
Specialized expertise in securing registered designs for screen icons, graphical user interfaces (GUI), and digital typographic elements in a tech-driven economy.
Design Registration Process
01
Design Audit
We analyze the visual features of your product to ensure they meet the criteria for registered protection.
02
Filing Strategy
Selection of the most effective jurisdictions, including EUIPO, UKIPO, and the Polish Patent Office.
03
Official Filing
Expert preparation and submission of your design representations and formal application data.
04
Examination
Handling all communications with official examiners to ensure the registration remains on track.
05
Registration
Securing your certificate and advising on long-term enforcement and renewal strategy.