Checklist for your design

Check for three features, before you protect your design.

1. Novelty:
   
   

   If a design is not novel, it can not be protected, so don't wait to long.
   
   A design is regarded novel as long as it has not been published.
   When you show your design to a limited circle of persons on a confidential basis, it will usually remain unpublished. But if you did present your design on a public exhibition, mailed it to many companies or printed it in a journal, it is published. And therefore not novel, in the legal meaning.
   
   

2. Individual character:
   
   

   Does your design leave the informed user with the same overall impression as an existing design? Does he think right away: "I know that design already"? In that case you can not protect your design. Otherwise it provides distinctiveness and is of "individual character".

   
   
   
3. Ability to be published:
   
   

   If you are bound to confidentiality or the publishing of the design is prohibited for other reasons, you can not protect your design on DesignProtection.com. Instead you should think about a notarial deposit to proof a copyright priority. Fast and affordable notarial deposits are available at www.PriorMart.com/en

   
   

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