Is there anything wrong with knocking-off a 50-year-old design? Tony Ash, managing director of Vitra, thinks so. Ash has written an opinion piece over at Dezeen, arguing for stricter design protection ...

Industrial Design protection is provided for a shape, configuration, surface pattern, colour, or line (or a combination of these), which, when applied to a functional article, produces or increases ...

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Protection Strategy The possibility of protecting a product design through other forms of intellectual property vehicles in addition to an industrial design should be considered on a case by case ...

Sarah Wright and Kaisa Patsalides explore whether designs originating from the UK can still qualify for EU design rights in a post-Brexit world, in light of conflicting interpretations among EU courts ...

The concept of shared virtual worlds – the metaverse – has received a great deal of hype recently, but some argue much of this has been overblown, and the metaverse’s true impact on the world of ...

Although registered and unregistered designs enjoy various forms of protection in Turkey, in practice, the hurdles to obtain such rights can be difficult to overcome, meaning manufacturers – ...