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Design Registration
The short answer: a registered design protects the appearance of a product — its shape, configuration, pattern or ornamentation — not the method of making it and not its function. In Hong Kong protection runs up to 25 years, renewed every 5 years, and a certificate usually issues within about 3 months. The critical point: file before you publish, use or manufacture, because only a new design can be registered.
- What is protected: the appearance, not the method or the technical function
- Term: up to 25 years, renewed every 5 years
- Timing: about 3 months to the certificate
- Timing matters: file before disclosure or sale, or novelty may be lost
Design FAQ
A design is the shape, configuration, pattern or ornamentation applied to a product.
A registered design protects only the appearance of the product, not the method of making it.
The owner can prevent others from using, selling, making, importing or hiring articles bearing the registered design.
Up to 25 years, renewable every 5 years.
Before publishing, using, disclosing or manufacturing the design. Only new designs can be registered.
Yes, if the designs relate to articles in the same class, or to the same set of articles.
Any article of manufacture, including a part of an article where that part is made and sold separately.
Two or more articles of the same design and general character, normally sold or used together — a dinner set, for example.
By the current Locarno Classification for industrial designs.
If everything is in order, the certificate issues within three months of the filing date.