Industrial Design 工業外觀設計
Industrial Design / Design Patent
Design is a form of intellectual property protection that concerns itself with the aesthetics of a product. It is solely for the protection of how the product looks like and not how it functions.
These includes products such as lamps, phone cases, jewelleries, bottles, automobiles, and any other products that has a physical form, or a user interface for a software or application.
Some examples of designs:
工業設計/外觀設計專利
外觀設計是知識產權保護的一種形式，涉及產品的外觀。它是針對保護產品的外貌而不保護其功能。
其中包括燈具、手機殼、珠寶、瓶子、汽車等產品，以及任何其他具有實體形式或作為軟件或應用程式使用者介面的產品。
部分設計範例如下：
Safeguards available to your designs
These designs can be protected by registering them in the country you want to sell your product, or you know where your product will be of great value.
Registered designs allow owners to prevent others from manufacturing, importing, using, selling or hiring the protected design product.
Registering your design will also turn it into an asset which you can license out or sell it to an interested buyer.
Protection of a design is a per country basis. If you have filed a registration in a country, for example, in US, it does not mean that your design is protected too in Japan.
Consider carefully where you want to register your design as fees are different for each country.
適用於您的設計的知識產權保護途徑
有關設計可以透過在您計劃銷售相關產品的國家或您認為相關產品於當地將會具有龐大價值的國家/地區進行註冊以獲得保護。
註冊外觀設計可讓設計擁有人阻止他人製造、進口、使用、銷售或租用受保護的外觀設計產品。
註冊外觀設計也將把它變成一種資產，您可以將其賦予許可或出售給有興趣的買家。
外觀設計的保護是地區性的。例如您在美國提交了註冊申請，並不代表您的設計在日本也受到保護。
由於每個國家/地區的費用都不同，因此請仔細考慮您想註冊外觀設計的地區。