Filing a design application

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A design is defined as the appearance of the whole or a part of a product as resulting, in particular, from the features of the lines, contours, colours, shape, surface texture and/or materials of the product itself and/or its ornamentation. 


The term product means any industrial or handicraft object, including, inter alia, components intended to be assembled to form a complex product, packaging, presentations, graphic symbols and typographic characters, excluding computer programs. Any design that is new and has individual character may be registered as a design.

A design is new if no identical design has been disclosed to the public before the date of filing of the application for registration of the design for which protection is sought or, if priority is claimed, before the date of priority. Designs are deemed to be identical when their features differ only in insignificant details. 

A design has individual character if the overall impression created by the product in the informed user (usually the consumer) differs significantly from the overall impression created in that user by any other product that has been disclosed to the public before the filing date of the application for registration or, if a priority is claimed, before the filing date.

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