Protect the look that makes your product distinctive.
Secure legal rights over your product's visual appearance and protect its shape, configuration, pattern, and ornamentation from unauthorised copying.
Design registration
Turn an original product appearance into a protected business asset.
Design registration protects the visual features of a product rather than its technical function. It can cover characteristics such as shape, configuration, pattern, composition of lines or colours, and ornamentation—helping you preserve exclusivity and strengthen your market position.
Manufacturers
Protect the distinctive appearance of products before wider market release.
Entrepreneurs
Safeguard a new product design while building a defensible commercial identity.
Design professionals
Secure rights in original visual work created for products and industry.
Clear and structured
Your registration in four stages
Design review
We assess the design details, ownership, and filing requirements.
Application filing
Representations and required information are prepared and submitted.
Examination
The design office reviews the application and raises objections if needed.
Registration
On acceptance, registration is recorded and the certificate is issued.
Business advantages
Protection that supports commercial growth
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Exclusive legal rights
Restrict unauthorised copying or commercial imitation. -
Market differentiation
Preserve the look that separates your product from competitors. -
Enforcement options
Strengthen your position when responding to infringement. -
Licensing potential
Create opportunities to license, assign, or commercialise rights.
What may be protected
Visual features that give products their identity.
Protection depends on the applicable law and examination, but these are common aspects considered in design filings.
Shape
The three-dimensional form and external contours of a product.
Configuration
The arrangement and relationship of visible product features.
Pattern
Repeating visual elements, surface arrangements, and line work.
Ornamentation
Decorative details and visual treatments applied to a product.
Protect your product design before it reaches the wider market.
Get professional support for preparing, filing, and following through on your design registration application.
Begin Your Registration