Design intellectual property is creations of the mind.
This includes designs, symbols, inventions, artistic and literary works, and names and images that may be used in commerce..
What is an industrial design? In a legal sense, an industrial design constitutes the ornamental aspect of an article.
An industrial design may consist of three dimensional features, such as the shape of an article, or two dimensional features, such as patterns, lines or color..
Design intellectual property is creations of the mind.
This includes designs, symbols, inventions, artistic and literary works, and names and images that may be used in commerce..
If you are a full-time employee, the designs you create as part of your job are your employer's intellectual property, not your own.
When something is your intellectual property, you have the exclusive right to use, alter and profit from it.
You also have the right to license your work to others at your discretion..
Under the Designs Act, 2000 the "article" means any article of manufacture and any substance, artificial, or partly artificial and partly natural; and includes ,any part of an article capable of being made and sold separately.
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Design is where function meets form.
From tables to telephones, industrial design is one of the key factors that attracts us to a product, or leads us to prefer using one product over another.
A top manager at Procter and Gamble talks to WIPO Magazine about the role of industrial design in a successful product range.
