Protect your Industrially design
- Decide if you have a design
Is your design responsible of the overall appearance of a product? Overall appearance can include the shape, configuration, pattern and ornamentation which, when applied to a product, give it a unique visual appearance.
A design does not protect the way a product works.
- Deciding if you own the design
To be entitled as an owner of a design you can be:
- the person who conceived the design (such as the designer)
- the employer of the designer, if the designer made the design while working for you
- the person who contracted the designer to make the design
- the person to whom the designer has assigned the design in writing.
Where two or more people own interests in a design, they must apply jointly.
The owner may be an individual, a company, an association or a partnership. However, if applying as a company, association or partnership, do not apply using a trading name or a trust.
- Don’t publicize your Design
- Search for earlier similar designs that have already been registered or used in kingdom of Bahrain.
- Prepare drawings
- Ask intellectually propriety professional advice
- File your application
