Registered Industrial Designs
When we think of intellectual property potection, we usually think of patents, trade-marks and copyright. Less top of mind are registered industrial designs. They protect unique, non-utilitarian design aspects of an article. While they are thought of as a patent – indeed, in the US they are called design patents and are contained within the utility patent database – they are really more akin to trade-marks and copyright.
Read more in my Free Press article on my blog, or on the Free Press site. (For some reason it hasn’t made the Canoe Tech page yet this week.) . . . [more]