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Get Your Industrial Designs Registered With Us
Because Your Designs Deserve Protection
Most of the time, it is not just the function of your product that matters; the design also significantly influences your value and brand identity. Getting your industrial designs registered means that you will solely own the exclusive rights to them, preventing theft and copying from external sources. And with exclusive rights, you can defend your industrial designs against infringement and preserve their uniqueness.
That is where we come in. As a trusted intellectual property firm in Malaysia, we help simplify and smooth the registration process for your convenience. When you choose VIP, you choose peace of mind and protection for your valuable industrial designs.
Our services include:
- Advising on your choice of industrial design and its registrability
- Industrial design searches and market investigations
- General advice regarding industrial design filing strategies
- Preparing, filing and prosecuting Malaysian industrial design application
- Facilitating the registration of industrial design in other jurisdictions
- Industrial design watches to identify competitors’ application and registration
- Managing maintenance and extension of industrial design registration
- Advising on infringement and invalidation of industrial design registration
- Negotiating amicable settlement and drafting co-existence agreement
- Negotiating and drafting license and/or assignment agreement
- Conducting industrial design due diligence and portfolio management
- Industrial design valuation
Industrial Design FAQs
Once you have registered your industrial design, you have the exclusive rights in the commercial exploitation of your industrial design, including making, selling, hiring, importing for sell or hire for purposes of any trade or business concerning the registered industrial design, yet preventing any body else from using and making money from it. The owner also holds the right to license the registered design to third parties for commercial purposes, preventing fraudulent activity concerning the protected industrial design from others.
a. information identifying the applicant (s) and the author(s) (Full name, address and nationality);
b. the Appointment of Agent Form (Form ID 10) signed by the authorised person of the applicant;
c. information on how the applicant has derived the right to the design from the author if the applicant is not the author (generally by way of assignment, employment or other agreement);
d. a set of representations of the design (in .jpeg format) with a designation of views to be published;
e. the name of the article;
f. the class and sub-class of the article to which the design is applied (based on the Locarno Classification);
g. a statement of novelty in respect of the industrial design to which the application relates;
h. information regarding any priority claim including Application No., filing date and country(If priority is to be claimed from a priority application); and
i. the priority document, and a certified English translation of the priority document if it is not in English (If priority is to be claimed from a priority application).
The estimated time frame from the filing of anapplication to the issuance of registration certificate for a smoothapplication is approximately nine (9) months to twelve (12) months.
Your registered industrial design is given an initial protection period of five (5)years from the date of filing and is renewable every five (5) years with prescribed extension fees. The maximum protection period is twenty-five (25) years.
Unfortunately, no. Registration of industrial design is territorial in nature. You will need to apply to each desired country in which you want to pursue industrial design protection.
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