The law for protecting designs can often seem to be unwieldy to the uninitiated with recent amendments to UK law and new European design protection regimes being introduced.

Notwithstanding the overlap with copyright law, designs in the United Kingdom can be protected automatically by both unregistered UK Design Rights and unregistered European Community Design Rights. In addition to this there are also two registered design regimes in operation with the availability of both UK and European Community Registered Designs.

Our IP litigators have a wide range of experience acting on behalf of the owners of many varied designs in respect of all of the different regimes available in the UK.

Examples of our IP litigators' recent experience includes:

• Successfully acting for a multi-national mobile phone company in the protection of the interchangeable designs for its mobile phone fascias.
  
  
• Successfully acting for a multi-national FMCG company in the p rotection of the designs for its air fresheners.
  
  
• Successfully acting for a multi-national toy company in the protection of the designs for a range of its toy products.
  
  

We have also successfully obtained interim injunctions for our clients to prevent the sale of designs which infringe their rights.