Copyright UK UK Design Registered Unregistered Trademark Trade Database Registered Right Community Community Secret Right Design Design Design Suitability Protects Protects the Protection for Protects Protects overall Protects Ensures Prevents literary, physical the internal or Overall appearance of a marks and knowledge of copying of audio & appearance of external shape appearance of Design from signs processes, structured graphical physical or configuration a Design from copying. identifying methods or data works from products with a of an original copying. products, techniques that content wholesale distinct 3D design. goods or cannot be present in copying and character. (Excludes services as backwardly web-sites, reproduction. (Includes protection for originating deduced by sets of Does not protection for 2D designs, from a inspection, and data, protect an 2D and 3D including specific are not records etc only designs, surface source generally known from being ‘idea’ the way the including patterns ) organisation. by the public copied in idea is laid surface are retained as whole or to down / patterns ) knowledge a significant recorded. assets of the extent Can be used organisation. where effort to protect has gone web content, into training compiling programmes, the course database. material etc. Cost Free <£100 Free From £300. Free Medium £500 Low- depends Free Costs can be to £2,000 on cost of found on depending on ensuring all European scope of communications Trade Marks protection are under NDA Directory obtained. OHIM Time to Automatic 3-4 Weeks Automatic Register with Automatic 3-4 Weeks Fast Automatic OHIM protect Duration Typically 25 25 years 10 years from 25 years if 3 years from first Perpetual As long as 15 years years from provided end of year of renewed every public availability subject to confidentiality / from last publication of renewal is first sale, 15 5 years in EEA country payment of Non Disclosure major published done every 5 years from renewal fee agreements modification works. years design- every 10 remain in force. whichever is years and
Copyright UK Registered Design UK Design Right Registered Community Design Unregistered Community Design Trademark Trade Secret Database Right Suitability Protects literary, audio & graphical works from wholesale copying and reproduction. Does not protect an ‘idea’ only the way the idea is laid down / recorded. Can be used to protect web content, training programmes, course material etc. Protects the physical appearance of physical products with a distinct character. (Includes protection for 2D and 3D designs, including surface patterns ) Protection for the internal or external shape or configuration of an original 3D design. (Excludes protection for 2D designs, including surface patterns ) Protects Overall appearance of a Design from copying. Protects overall appearance of a Design from copying. Protects marks and signs identifying products, goods or services as originating from a specific source organisation. Ensures knowledge of processes, methods or techniques that cannot be backwardly deduced by inspection, and are not generally known by the public are retained as knowledge assets of the organisation. Prevents copying of structured data content present in web-sites, sets of data, records etc from being copied in whole or to a significant extent where effort has gone into compiling the database. Cost Free <£100 Free From £300. Costs can be found on European Trade Marks Directory OHIM Free Medium £500 to £2,000 depending on scope of protection obtained. Low- depends on cost of ensuring all communications are under NDA Free Time to protect Automatic 3-4 Weeks Automatic Register with OHIM Automatic 3-4 Weeks Fast Automatic Duration Typically 25 years from publication of published works. 25 years provided renewal is done every 5 years 10 years from end of year of first sale, 15 years from design- whichever is 25 years if renewed every 5 years 3 years from first public availability in EEA country Perpetual subject to payment of renewal fee every 10 years and As long as confidentiality / Non Disclosure agreements remain in force. 15 years from last major modification
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