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Register your designs and avoid the headaches and politics of unregistered rights

Wednesday, 14 October 2020

David Grainger

General IP

In the EU, a designer is able to benefit from both unregistered and registered design rights. Although cheap and easy to obtain, many designers have chosen to rely on registered designs only for the more important designs/products and fall back on unregistered rights for the rest. However, that may not be possible in certain situations as of 1 Janu...

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