How to Apply to Register a Design
How to Apply to Register a Design This booklet will help you apply to register a design in the United Kingdom. It also includes information about applying to register a design outside the UK. Intellectual Property Office is an operating name of the Patent Office All information contained in this document was correct at the time of going to print, and is available in alternative formats on request. For further information please visit our website at:- www.ipo.gov.uk or contact us on:- 0300 300 2000 Introduction This booklet will help you apply to register a design in the United Kingdom. It also includes information about applying to register a design outside the UK. We have done our best to make sure that the information in it is correct. However, the booklet does not try to cover every part of design law. 1 Help and Advice Professional help If you would like more information or help, please: A trade mark attorney or patent attorney is legally and professionally qualified in design matters. You do not have to use one to act for you when you are making your application, but you may find it helpful - especially if we raise objections to your application. You can get the names of trade mark attorneys from: • phone 0300 300 2000 (we may record or monitor calls for training purposes); • contact us by minicom on 0300 0200 015; • fax 01633 813600; • e-mail [email protected]; or • visit our website at www.ipo.gov.uk Or, you can write to us at: Designs Registry Cardiff Road Newport South Wales NP10 8QQ. If you would like more information or help, please phone 0300 300 2000 (we may record or monitor calls for training purposes) 2 The Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys 5th Floor Outer Temple 222-225 Strand London WC2R 1BA Phone: 020 7101 6090 Fax: 020 7101 6099 You can also get the names of patent attorneys from: The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys 95 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1DT. Phone: 020 7405 9450 Fax: 020 7430 0471 This booklet has three separate sections Section 1 How to pay Provides essential information to help you prepare your application to register a design in the UK. You may pay by: Section 2 Includes: • cheque made payable to ‘The Intellectual Property Office’; or • credit or debit card - please fill in the fee sheet (form FS2) included with this booklet and send it with your application. •guidance notes on how to fill in your application form and provide illustrations of your design; •an example of how to present proper illustrations; and • your application form. Important We cannot refund your application fee for any reason, so please read this booklet carefully before you make your application. Section 3 Gives you more information about designs, including how to apply to register a design outside the UK. Application fee It costs: In respect of the first design included in an application •Where consent to immediate publication is given, £60, and •Where consent to publication is delayed, £40 In respect of any subsequent design included in the application Our Search Service We can tell you if your design is identical to one which is already registered in the United Kingdom. If you want to use this service, you will need to fill in a Designs Form 21 and send it to us with your fee of £25 and two illustrations of the design you want us to search for before you send us your application form. Our Information Centre You can phone our Information Centre on 0300 300 2000 before making your application. Our staff in this unit cannot tell you whether your design will be accepted, but they will be pleased to answer any general questions you may have. •Where consent to immediate publication is given, £40 •Where consent to publication is delayed, £20 This fee covers the cost of us processing your application. It does not guarantee that we will accept your application. 3 Essential information for preparing your UK design application What is a registered design? A registered design is a monopoly right which protects a design. This can be for all or part of a product resulting from the features of, in particular, the: • lines; • contours; • colours; • shape; • texture; or • materials; of the product or its decoration. The design may be: • the shape of a product; • the decoration applied to a product; or •both, for example the shape of a teapot with a specific pattern applied to it. And remember, it is the design itself that is protected, no matter what product you name on your application form. Registering your design gives you the exclusive right to the design in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man for up to 25 years. When assessing individual character, the freedom the designer has in creating the design is taken into account. You must satisfy yourself as far as possible that the answer to these two questions is “Yes” because we will not examine your application by searching for similar designs. If another person can prove that your registered design is too similar to another design that already exists then you will lose your registered design rights. Upon examination, we will object to designs which: • are dictated only by how a product works; • are offensive; • involve using certain protected flags and international emblems; or • are not covered by the definition of a design e.g. concept/ ideas. Name and Address Your application details, including your name and address, will appear on our records. We also include them in the Registration Designs Journal if we accept your application. Both are open to the public on our website which can be permanently searched using most standard search engines. Examining your application Once we receive your application and fee, an examiner will check it and decide if it is acceptable. You can use the 'grace period' for up to one year to test the market for your design, but you should not delay making your application any longer than is necessary. They will then send you a letter with the results of the examination. This letter will tell you if your design is acceptable. What you need to consider before making your application What happens if the examiner objects to my design? You need to think about the following points carefully before you send us your application. • Is your design new? This means that it must not be the same as any design which has already been made available to the public. • Does it have individual character? This means that the overall impression the design gives to someone must be different from the impression any previous design gives them. 4 If the examiner objects to your design, you will be allowed a timescale of at least 2 months to: • try to persuade us that the objections are not justified; or • overcome them in some other way. If you want to put forward reasons why we should accept your design, you can phone or write to the examiner. Essential information for preparing your UK design application If there are relatively straightforward ways of overcoming our objections, the examiner will tell you about these in the examination report. You can also apply to have a formal meeting (a hearing) with a Hearing Officer who is a senior official in the Designs Registry. At the hearing, you will have the opportunity to put forward your case which will allow the Hearing Officer to make a decision on the future of your application. What if I cannot overcome the objections? You can either withdraw your application or we will write to you telling you that it has been refused. We will also refuse your application if you do not reply to the examination letter by the deadline that we give you. We will publish your registration in the Registered Designs Journal, which is published every week on - line. Please be aware that this will mean that your name and address details will appear on the internet, so you should apply using a PO Box number or an alternative address if you do not wish for personal information to appear in the on-line journal. How long does the process take? If we do not object to or question your design, it will be registered within 2 months. Your certificate will follow shortly after. It will obviously take longer if the examiner has to ask you any questions or you have to overcome any objections. What happens if the examiner does not object to my design or I overcome the objections? We will register your design in the UK Designs Register, which you can view on our website at www.ipo.gov.uk These times are the usual times for these events to occur within. Unusual circumstances will cause these to change. We receive your Application “filing date” 6 days We will send you an application receipt 2 months We grant your design registration in relation to correctly filed applications. Wthin the time limit we give (usually 2 months) If required, you reply to the examination report 3 weeks after the grant date We publish the design Design Registered 5 How to fill in your UK design application form Please remember that we cannot refund your application fee for any reason, so please read this booklet carefully before you make your application. Application fee Illustrations of your design It costs: You will need to send us one copy of the illustrations of your design with your application form. Please read the guidance notes on page 9 of this booklet and study the example on page 10 so that you will know the best way to present your illustrations. In respect of the first design included in an application •Where consent to immediate publication is given, £60, and •Where consent to publication is delayed, £40 In respect of any subsequent design included in the application •Where consent to immediate publication is given, £40 •Where consent to publication is delayed, £20 This fee covers the cost of us processing your application. It does not guarantee that we will accept your application. How to pay You may pay by: • cheque made payable to ‘The Intellectual Property Office ’; or • credit or debit card - please fill in the fee sheet (form FS2) included with this booklet and send it with your application. Please read the guidance notes on page 9 of this booklet and study the example on page 10 so that you will know the best way to present your illustrations. 6 Returning the form to us When you have filled in the form, please return it with one copy of the illustrations of your design and your fee to: Designs Registry Cardiff Road Newport South Wales NP10 8QQ. Representations of your design Providing illustrations of your design Drawn views You must send us a complete set of illustrations of your design. We will scan the images of your design and print out a copy for the registration certificate. The original illustrations will be kept on the official file for our records. These should be ink drawings or, better still, good-quality photocopies. Your illustrations must present an accurate and complete picture of your design. If your design is not two-dimensional or is just decoration, your illustrations should include a series of views of the product which the design is applied to. If you only want to protect the design of part of a product, you should mark your illustrations clearly or include a ‘partial disclaimer’ (see below). If you need to explain any design features which cannot be clearly seen in your illustrations, you may include a brief description at the bottom of sheet 1 of your illustrations. You will find an example of how to provide a set of illustrations on page 10 of this booklet. Views of the design Your illustrations should show enough different views of the design so that there is no doubt about exactly what you want to register. If your design is for the shape of a product, the best views are often those which show the product in perspective. Perspective views show how the design looks from different angles and can reveal important details that do not always show up in a single view. Your illustrations can be drawings or photos or, in some cases (where the design is on a flat surface), samples. They should be presented on A4-size paper. Only use one side of the paper and, where possible, show the product in an upright position. Mark the sheet number in the top right-hand corner. You will also need to show the total number of sheets in the set (for example, ‘Sheet 1 of 3’, ‘Sheet 2 of 3’, and so on). Labelling the views You should label each different view in your set of illustrations (for example, ‘Front view’, ‘View of one side’, ‘Perspective view from front, above and one side’). If necessary, you can include footnotes such as ‘The product is circular’ or ‘The view from the other side is the same’, instead of adding extra views. Do not include any other writing on your illustrations and do not show the size of the item. Repeated surface patterns Views of designs with a repeated surface pattern should show the complete pattern and be surrounded with enough of the repeat to fully illustrate the entire pattern. Only use sectional views if they are essential to show a feature properly. If you do include sectional views, they must be blacked in solidly to hide any internal features which cannot normally be seen on the finished product. Photographic views These should show the product in front of a clear background and should not include any other items. Avoid confusing highlights, reflections and heavy shadows. Take care to prevent misleading distortion as a result of the camera being too close to the item. If you need to adjust your photos, you should do so on the negatives and not on the prints. Glue your photos firmly to A4 backing sheets. ‘Informal’ illustrations To avoid delaying your application, you can send us an ‘informal’ illustration or sample of the product. This does not need to meet all the requirements set out above, but it must show clearly all the features of the design you want to protect. We only need one copy of your ‘informal’ illustrations, or one sample, with your application. If we are not satisfied with the illustrations or samples you provide, we will later ask you to send us proper ‘formal’ illustrations of your design. We may also tell you more exactly what we need to see. Partial disclaimer In some cases you may want to protect the design that is applied to only part of a product. In these cases, you must clearly identify the design on the part or parts of the product you want to protect. You can do this by: • colouring the part or parts in question; •drawing the part or parts in question in solid lines and the other parts in dotted lines; or •carefully circling the part or parts in red ink. You must do this on all the views of the product in both sets of the illustrations. You should then include a ‘partial disclaimer’ worded as in the following example. ‘The features of the design for which protection is sought are the [lines, contours, colours, shape, texture or materials, as appropriate] of the part or parts of the product shaded in blue in the illustrations.’ 7 How to present your design illustration 8 How to fill in your UK design application form in detail If there is not enough space for any of your answers on the form, please use separate sheets. Number each sheet and write in section 7 of the form how many extra sheets you have used. If you need any more help to fill in this form, contact our Information Centre on 0300 300 2000. What to put in each section of the form First page Section 1 Section 5 Please include your reference. You don’t have to provide one, but if you do we will use it whenever we contact you. Before working out how much your application will cost, you will need to count the total number of designs and decide if you want to defer publication of any or all of the designs that you include. Please complete the “Designs Ready Reckoner” sheet attached. Section 2 Say how many different designs you are applying for in this application if there is more than one. Remember that you will need to pay for each design. See the “Designs Ready Reckoner” sheet attached to help you to calculate the total fee payable. In the case of a multiple application, you also need to tell us how many designs in the application are to be published immediately. For example, if this is a multiple application of three designs and you want all three to proceed to publication and registration as soon as possible, state “3”. If however this is a multiple application of three designs and you want to defer the publication of one of the designs then state “2”. Section 3 This section must contain the details of the owner of the design. So only give your own details if you are either the owner or a joint owner with another person or company. Do not automatically name yourself as the designer if you are applying in the name of a company. If you are applying as a partnership, the name of the partnership must be provided. It would be helpful if the names of all the partners are listed also, but this is not essential. If your address is outside the UK, you must provide an address either within the European Economic Area or the Channel Islands as your contact address in section 4. You will only have an ADP number (which means Automatic Data Processing) if you have previously applied to us to register a design, but if you do not know it then leave this space blank. Section 4 If you appoint someone (for example, a patent attorney or a trade mark attorney) to deal with your application, give details here. If, as the applicant your address at section 3 is outside the UK, you must provide a contact address within the European Economic Area or the Channel Islands. We will send all our letters to this contact address (which we call an “address for service”). If you leave this section blank, we will write to you at the address given in section 3 as long as it is within the UK or elsewhere in the European Economic Area or the Channel Islands. You can change or appoint an agent or change a contact address at any time after making your application by sending us Form DF1A. You can get this form from us. If you have requested deferment of publication of any design within your application, you must send us a Form DF2C requesting publication within 12 months of the date of application. Otherwise your design will not be registered. When you send us Form DF2C to ask us to publish each design, you will need to pay the £20 publication fee for each design as well as a deferral fee of £20 for each design. So, for example, a single design on which you defer publication will eventually cost you £80 (£40 for the application, £20 for the publication and £20 for the deferral) instead of £60. And any other design in a multiple application on which you defer publication will eventually cost you £60 (£20 for the application, £20 for the publication and £20 for the deferral) instead of £40. You can choose to defer publication of any design for up to12 months from the date of the application. This period cannot be extended. On all designs where you have not requested deferred publication we will publish these as soon as possible, once the application is in order. Section 6 You or your agent must sign and date the form. Section 7 It will help us to sort out any queries more quickly if you can provide the name and daytime phone number of someone we can contact. You can also provide your e-mail address if you would like us to contact you in this way. In this section you should also say the total number of sheets of paper that make up this form so that we can account for everything. You do not have to attach samples of the products which show your design, as lined drawings, photographs or computer generated images should be perfectly adequate. But if you are unable to clearly show the design with paper illustrations then you may attach a sample of each design and say how many are attached. 9 How to fill in your UK design application form in detail Second page You should use this sheet to give information that is special to the single design or to each design in a multiple application. So, you should copy the sheet as many times as you need. You should identify the number of designs in the illustrations, and say at the top of the second page which design each sheet refers to. Section A This must be the same applicant as in section 3. You cannot include designs owned by other people with this application. Section B Say the product that you have designed, or which product or products the design is normally applied to, for example a watch or a teapot. If the design is surface decoration, say the products that the decoration is most likely to be applied to e.g. textiles, wallpaper or clothing. And if the design is the shape of something, say the product or products that the shape is applied to e.g. a table or a vase. Please avoid long descriptions. We want to know which products the design is applied to or used for so that we can accurately classify the design for our public search database. This is so that when anyone searches our website for designs of various products they will see your design registration in the product types where you are most likely to use it. We will restrict the classifications of each design to a maximum of four different product types, and may change the product descriptions that you give to ensure correct classification. These product classifications will not restrict the design registration in any way at all. It is the design itself that will be protected, regardless of which products you say are the most likely to be used. Section C Your illustrations should show enough different views of the design so that there is no doubt about exactly what you want to register. So tell us how many views of the design you have included. Section D Designs of a repeating surface pattern (RSP) should show the complete pattern and be surrounded by enough of the repeat to fully illustrate the entire pattern. So if you are, for example, applying for the design of wallpaper or textile materials that are intended to cover a large area, make sure that your design illustration covers more than the whole pattern, and say “RSP” in section D. Otherwise we will treat the design exactly as it appears in the illustrations, without any repeat. Section E You may give a brief description of any design features that you feel may not be adequately shown in the illustrations, such as lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and materials used. 10 Section F In some cases you may want to protect the design that is applied to only part of a product. In these cases, you must clearly identify the design features on the part or parts of the product you want to protect. You can do this by (i) colouring the part or parts in question, (ii) drawing the part or parts in question in solid lines and the other parts in dotted lines, or, (iii) carefully circling the part or parts in red ink. You must do this on all the views of the product in your illustrations. You should then include a “partial disclaimer” in section F worded something like “The features of the design for which protection is sought are the [lines, contours, colours, shape, texture or materials as appropriate] of the part or parts of the product shaded in blue in the illustrations”. Limitations and disclaimers will restrict the scope of the registered design. Section G If you wish you may defer publication and therefore registration of the design for up to 12 months. The period for deferment cannot be extended. If you do not want us to proceed to publication and registration as soon as possible, please say “No” and make sure that you have filled in a “Designs Ready Reckoner” sheet to pay only the application fee at this stage. You will need to fill in a Form DF2C and pay us the publication fee and an extra fee for deferral when you want to have the design published. You must not forget to do this as the design application will be automatically deemed abandoned after 12 months and you will not then gain a registration at all. See the notes at section 5 for more information about the fees you must send with a Form DF2C. Section H If you are claiming priority from an earlier design application made in another country, provide details in this section. You must apply within 6 months of your earlier application. Section I Only fill in this section if you are not the person or company named in the priority application in section H. How to fill in your UK design application form in detail Third page You should use this sheet for illustrations of your design. If you need to copy the sheet to show the different views of the design then please do so, and show the continuation of the design number, for example, design number 4 continued out of a total of 7. Your illustrations should show enough of the design so that there is no doubt about exactly what you want to register. If your design is for the shape of a product, the best views are often those which show the product in perspective. Perspective views show how the design looks from different angles and can reveal important details that do not always show up in a single sided view. Your illustrations can be drawings or photographs or, (in cases where the design is on a flat surface) samples. They should be presented on A4 size paper. Use only one side of the sheet of paper and, where possible, show the product in an upright position. You should label each different view in your set of illustrations, for example “front view” “view of one side” and so on. If colour is meant to form part of the design features then you should show the exact colour or colours in the illustrations or sample of the design. If colour is not meant to form part of the design features, or, if you want to protect the design in any colour, you can disclaim the colour by adding words such as “No claim is made for the colour or colours shown”. If you are having difficulty in showing your design on paper, then you may send us samples of the designs that are not harmful or perishable and which can be held by hand. We regret that we cannot return such samples. If you wish to make an application by using samples of products instead of paper illustrations then you should say so in a covering letter, or phone our Information Centre on 0300 300 2000 and ask to meet with a Designs Examiner who will help you with your application. 11 Form DF2A Please remove the application forms from the following pages, fill them in and return them to us. 12 Designs Form DF2A Official fee due with this form Application to register one or more designs Please read the guidance note below about filling in this form. 1. Your reference: 2. If you are applying for more than one design, please state the total number. Concept House Cardiff Road Newport South Wales NP10 8QQ How many of these designs do you wish to have published and registered immediately? 3. Full name and address (including postcode) of the applicant. Your application details, including your name and address, will appear on our records both in the office and on the electronic register which is searchable by the public. Designs ADP number (if you know it). If you are applying in the name of a company, where is it incorporated? If incorporated in the USA, in which state is it incorporated? 4. Full name and address (including postcode) of your agent or your contact address if not the same as in section 3 above. Designs ADP number (if you know it). 5. Fees enclosed. 6. Signature of the applicant or their representative. Name in BLOCK CAPITALS. Date. 7 Name and daytime phone number of the person we should contact in case of query. You may also provide your e-mail address. How many pages are you sending us? This is sheet 1 of Note: Section 5: If this application contains more than one design, attach a Designs Ready Reckoner sheet. (REV JUN 10) Intellectual Property Office is an operating name of the Patent Office Form DF2A This is the (for example, first) design out of a total of designs You must answer these questions for each design in a multiple application, so copy this sheet as many times as you need. A. Name of the applicant. B. Which product or products is the design for? C. How many illustration sheets are there for this design? D. Write “RSP” if this is the design of a pattern which repeats across the surface of a product, for example, wallpaper. E. If you wish, you may give a brief description of the design shown in the illustration or sample. F. List any limitations or disclaimers you want to record. G. Do you agree that we should publish this design as soon as possible? Please state yes or no. H. If you are claiming priority from an earlier application to register this design, give these details. I. If the earlier application was made in a different name, say how the current applicant has a right to apply. If, for example, by assignment of the earlier application, give the date of the transaction. Notes: Priority date Country Application number You MUST answer all of the questions above which are shown in BOLD print. Please phone us on 0300 300 2000 if you need help to fill in this form. Checklist Tick the box if you have included priority documents with this application (REV JUN 10) Form DF2A Illustration sheet This is the (for example, first) design out of a total of designs _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (REV JUN 10) Form DF2A Designs Ready Reckoner Please remove the Designs Ready Reckoner from the following page, fill in, and return to us. 19 BLANK PAGE 20 Concept House Cardiff Road Newport South Wales NP10 8QQ Designs Ready Reckoner Please return this sheet with your application form DF2A or DF2B ___________________________________________________________________________________ Write in this box how many designs you are applying for. Write in this box how many designs you want to be published immediately. Add the two numbers. (That is, multiply the sum of the two numbers by 20, add 20, and write the answer in the box. Then write this number in section 5 of form DF2A or section 6 of form DF2B). X 20 + 20 = ___________________________________________________________________________________ Before sending us your application, please make sure you have: • carefully read all sections of this booklet; • carefully considered whether your design is new and has individual character, or if we are likely to raise any other objections (see pages 4 and 5); • filled in your application form correctly and provided a copy of illustrations (see pages 7 and 8); • included the right fee (see page 3); and • contacted our Information Centre on 0300 300 2000 if you are not sure of anything. carefully considered whether your design is new and has individual character, or if we are likely to raise any other objections 23 More information about designs Confidentiality Other people’s comments We have to make all documents connected with your application available for public inspection after we have published your application in the Registered Designs Journal. This will include any evidence and exhibits you have provided to support your application. Once we have published your application in the Registered Designs Journal, your design will become registered, and anyone who thinks that you are not entitled to have registered rights in the design can apply to have the registration removed. This action is called ‘invalidation’. If anyone does apply to have your design invalidated, we will send you a copy of the statement of their reasons and invite you to state your case against the invalidation. If you do not want a piece of information to be open to public inspection, you should give us detailed reasons in writing when you send us the document or within 14 days of sending it. We will then consider whether we can agree to your request for confidentiality. Appealing against us refusing your application If we refuse to register your design, you will receive a written statement of our reasons for doing so. You can then appeal against this decision to the Registered Designs Appeal Tribunal at the High Court or the Court of Sessions in Scotland or the High Court in Northern Ireland. Falsely indicating that a design is registered It is an offence to indicate that a design is registered when it is not. For example, it would be an offence to use the words ‘Registered’ or ‘Registered design’ on a product. Our website You can search or view the Designs Register, and find even more detailed information about designs, on our website at www.ipo.gov.uk If you do not want a piece of information to be open to public inspection, you should give us detailed reasons in writing 24 After we have registered your design Renewing your design Protecting your design abroad Your design can be registered for up to 25 years. However, if you want this to happen, you must renew it every five years on the anniversary of the date we received your application. Registering your design in the UK does not protect it abroad. You can renew a registration up to three months before the renewal date, but we will write to remind you three months before the renewal is due. The cost of renewing a design is currently: If you want to protect your design in countries other than the United Kingdom, you can do this in two ways. 1 You can apply for a Registered Community Design (RCD) with OHIM (the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market). OHIM is based in Alicante, Spain. The Registered Community Design gives protection in all countries of the European Union (EU). • £130 for the second five-year period; • £210 for the third five-year period; • £310 for the fourth five-year period; and We have produced a booklet ‘Applying for a Registered Community Design’ to help you, which you can get from our Information Centre by phoning 0300 300 2000. • £450 for the fifth five-year period. Or, you can visit the OHIM website at www.oami.europa.eu What you can do with your design 2 If you want to protect your design: You can: •in only some, but not all, of the countries in the EU; or •license other people to use your design with your permission; • •sell (legally ‘assign’) your design to someone else; or • cancel your registration. Infringement in the UK of registered designs Infringement means using a registered design illegally. Infringement takes place when someone uses a design in the United Kingdom that is identical or similar to your registered design. outside the EU; you generally have to make a separate application to each country in which you want protection. 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