The simplest and fastest forms of industrial design lookup
Depending on the specific search purpose, the search for industrial design information can be divided into the following forms: search for protection ability, search for commercial ability to avoid infringement of rights and search for development purposes.
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Look up protection
This form of search is carried out before an enterprise submits an industrial design registration application, in order to assess whether an industrial design is likely to be granted a patent.
The scope of a search for a patentability search includes all information that has been publicly disclosed worldwide prior to the filing date of the application for the sought-after industrial design registration, in order to determine whether the industrial design registration is similar or significantly different from any known industrial design.
Searching for the possibility of industrial design protection is usually carried out during the preparation of the application for registration of industrial design. The search helps enterprises decide whether to continue with the application for industrial design registration, or to create and develop a new industrial design, which is different from the previously disclosed and registered industrial designs.
Look up commercial possibilities to avoid infringement of rights
This form of search is usually carried out to determine whether placing a product on the market of a particular country infringes any industry design that is still valid in that country.
For this type of search, the search scope only includes industrial designs that have been granted and are still valid, as well as industrial design applications that have been published and are under substantive examination, up to date of the search, in a particular country to which commercialization is directed.
Therefore, enterprises should conduct a search in this form at the stage of starting to develop a plan to bring their products to bring their industrial design to the market of a particular country, in order to identify the relevant industrial design that is being protected to avoid the infringement of these industrial designs.
Look up for research and development purposes
This form of search is often performed by enterprises during the research and development of industrial designs and products bearing new industrial designs.
Enterprises can conduct a search by industrial design name, product name bearing industrial design, product classification, owner's name, author's name to identify industrial designs that have been used before, creative trends and the external design of the product, thereby building the enterprise's industrial design development plan.
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