Designs

We ensu­re that no third par­ti­es bene­fit from the gre­at designs of our cli­ents.

Our services

Bjerkéns Patentbyrå has exten­si­ve expe­ri­ence in mana­ging design mat­ters and hel­ping our cli­ents in are­as such as:

• asses­sing a product’s pos­si­bi­li­ti­es for obtai­ning a design regi­stra­tion,
• drafting docu­ments for filing design appli­ca­tions both in Sweden and abro­ad,
• filing design appli­ca­tions in Sweden or in the EU,
• filing design appli­ca­tions in other countri­es via our network of inter­na­tio­nal con­tacts,
• reply­ing to refu­sal deci­sions, defi­ci­en­cy noti­fi­ca­tions and cor­re­spon­dence from rele­vant aut­ho­ri­ti­es,
• moni­to­ring time limits, such as tho­se per­tai­ning to rene­wals,
• inva­li­da­ting other design appli­ca­tions,
• asses­sing whet­her a pro­duct is infringing on a regis­te­red design,
• defen­ding exclu­si­ve rights to design,
• assis­ting throug­hout any legal con­flict in a court of law,
• drafting licen­sing agre­e­ments, trans­fer agre­e­ments and the like for designs

What is required for a design protection?

Approval of an appli­ca­tion for a design regi­stra­tion requires that the design must be new. In prin­cip­le, this means that the pro­duct for which design regi­stra­tion is desi­red must not have been shown in pub­lic befo­re the appli­ca­tion is filed.

The design must be uni­que, i.e. it must pro­vi­de a com­ple­tely new ove­rall impres­sion, and be sig­ni­fi­cant­ly dif­fe­rent from the appea­ran­ce of pre­viously known pro­ducts. However, the­re is a gra­ce peri­od of twel­ve mont­hs for the novel­ty requi­re­ment in both Sweden and the EU.

A design regi­stra­tion may be gran­ted for a max­i­mum of 25 years. The regi­stra­tion must be renewed eve­ry five years.

A mee­ting with Bjerkéns might be the dif­fe­rence between a good design and a good, suc­cess­ful design.

In which countries is it possible to protect a design?

Designs may be regis­te­red in Sweden via the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV) or for Europe through filing an appli­ca­tion for design regi­stra­tion with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). A design may also be regis­te­red through the Hague system admi­nis­te­red by WIPO or abro­ad through our network of inter­na­tio­nal con­tacts.