Since Brexit, there are two main types of design protection available in the UK:
A registered design (known as a UK Registered Design or UKRD); and
An unregistered design (known as a Supplementary Unregistered Design or SUD).
Post Brexit, unregistered design rights can now arise only in the territory in which the design is “first” disclosed. This means that many businesses face a dilemma. If they cannot simultaneously disclose their designs in both the UK and the EU, they may only have protection in one of these key territories and none in the other.
At the Victor, we take a cross-disciplinary approach to protecting and managing designs that combines design registration, where appropriate, and using Etched® intellectual asset management tool to imprint and date stamp design rights on the blockchain. The trans-national nature of the blockchain means that, for the first time, owners can claim genuine simultaneous disclosure in both the UK and the EU.
Schedule your free consultation today to discuss how THE VICTOR can benefit your enterprise.
By putting next generation technology, such as Etched® at the heart of our services, we are able to provide our clients with gold standard intellectual asset management.
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Our trade mark and design attorneys are experts in all aspects of trade mark law and practice.
Our trade mark and design attorneys are experts in all aspects of design law and practice.
Our intellectual asset management team uses Etched® to proactively secure all the evidence you need on the blockchain
At The Victor, we use Etched® intellectual asset management tool to ensure licences are as robust and valuable as possible by tokenising the assets you want to licence.
