Designs

Learn about recent legal cases concerning trademarks and registered Community designs.

Two major developments in 2024 are set to give a further boost to design rights and likely make them even more attractive for designers and other creative businesses.

Learn the difference between trademarks and industrial design — and why each has a crucial role in building brand identity.

Designs require protection just as inventions do. Learn how a design patent or similar IP right can help safeguard your unique creations.

Answering the question: 'When were computers invented?' involves far more than just citing a date — it is bound up in the past, present and future of IP.

Working in the Intellectual Property industry takes many forms, requiring professionals with diverse backgrounds and skillsets.

DIAMS iQ combines long-term hands-on IP expertise and integrated IP country law knowledge with innovative digital tools in a modern and intuitive solution.

A sampling of some of the most important terms you will encounter and a few that are too intriguing not to mention. 

A brief guide on all notable changes that IP rights holders have to face after the transition period ends on January 1, 2021.

Knock-off products are always a problem for business owners holding IP rights, but supply chain disruptions allow malevolent actors to make a tidy profit.