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In many cases the outer shape or form of a product is decisive for its marketing success. The registration of a design provides protection against imitation. For Germany you may register a design patent and for the territory of the European Union a Community Design.
 The most common mistakes with regard to the application for a registered design are missing or incomplete specifications of the classification of the products or improper or even meaningless images. We help you in avoiding such mistakes. We prepare your application and control the suitability of the images to be filed. We care for the registration of you design patent in the registers of the German Patent and Trademark Office or the European Office for Harmonization.
If you should have failed to let register a design, it may nevertheless be protected against imitation within the European Union. We check whether the prerequisites for this protection are fulfilled and inform you about your possible rights.
Part of our expertise also is the enforcement of or defense against claims based on designs. Supported by you we sift through the known shapes and evaluate whether a similar shape may still fall under the scope of protection of the protected design.
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