Designs:  Protection by design

Whether your business sells toothbrushes or watches, shampoo or keyboards, protecting your original design has never been more important. Talk to the experts at Valadares Law Group and decide what type of protection your product needs.

Businesses recognize that protecting the shape and aesthetic features of their products has never been more important, as demonstrated by the continued increase in industrial design filings each year. At Valadares Law Group, we use our patent expertise to ensure your designs are protected to their full extent. When drafting a design application, we focus of ensuring that all possible variations are protected and that the description is precise in order to expedite prosecution to issuance. Often, we obtain design registration to supplement other forms of IP protection.

Our design protection services include:

• Design searches and registrability opinions
• Drafting and filing industrial design applications
• Assignment issues
• Strategic advice on how to convert existing design rights into registered trademark rights