Design Registration: Protect the Look of Your Product
Your product’s unique shape, pattern, or ornament is what customers recognize. Don’t let copycats profit from your hard-earned creative aesthetic.
Why Register Your Design?
Prevent Piracy
Registration grants you the legal right to stop any third party from manufacturing, selling, or importing products that copy your design.
Monopolize the Market
It provides an exclusive right to use your design for up to 15 years, giving you a massive competitive edge in a crowded market.
Legal Action
With a registered design, you have strong grounds to file for injunctions and damages against infringers in a court of law.
What Can Be Registered?
Under the Designs Act, 2000, you can protect the aesthetic features of an article—as long as they are applied to an industrial process.
- Shape and Configuration: The unique 3D form of your product (e.g., the shape of a luxury bottle).
- Patterns and Ornamentation: The surface design (e.g., unique prints on fabrics or decorative textures on hardware).
- Composition of Lines or Colors: Aesthetic elements that give a product its distinctive visual character.
Note: Designs that are purely functional, or trademarks, are protected under different laws. We provide a consultation to ensure you choose the correct registration type.
Secure Your Product Design
Ready to protect your design from knock-offs? Send us your design sketches/images, and we will perform an availability search and guide you through the filing process.