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info@virtuelegalservices.comYou have an amazing design for your product. It might be its shape, its curves, its pattern, or some other design feature. But before you go ahead and spend money registering your design, you should check if there isn't an existing one that looks just like yours.
And that's when our Design Patent Search comes into play. We analyze all the relevant patents, designs, and public sources and find out which of them might infringe upon your rights.
Design patent protection is the protection of a design rather than its functionality. In the USA, it refers to the design of a useful article and typically lasts for 15 years from the grant date.
The protected design could be:
The general shape of a product
Decorative patterns of a product
The combination of configuration and ornamentation of a product
The design patent is conditional upon novelty, so the search of previous designs and publicly available designs is essential.
The visual appearance of your design is compared against relevant databases and public records.
Our design patent prior art search in the United States includes USPTO design patents, both through classification-based search and visual search. A more comprehensive USPTO design patent search could reveal relevant designs that a simple keyword search fails to reveal.
In addition to the above, depending upon your needs, we also search:
Publicly available products and marketing materials could also be relevant to prior art. Patents are not always necessary for the designs to be relevant.
Begin Your Prior Art Search
You will get a written report highlighting the closest matches we were able to find for you.
This report may contain the following items:
If there is something that might cause you an issue, we will tell you why.
As you begin the filing process, drawings become important. Through our design patent drawing services, we will convert your sketches, images, or CAD files into patent drawings that satisfy relevant filing requirements.
Our services include:
For international filings, we will produce drawing sets in accordance with the filing requirements of various patent offices.
Qualified intellectual property researchers and technical experts, not merely machine-generated search results.
You will get a quote upfront before we start.
We give you a delivery date and keep you updated.
Your design and other information are kept confidential.
You will not need to pester us for updates.
Be it a single design or even a portfolio of designs, we can cater to your needs.
A design patent search involves researching the prior designs contained within design patents, published applications, registered designs, and other publicly available documents for designs that look similar to yours. This process is visual in nature and takes into consideration the shape, proportionality, surface characteristics, and the overall look of the design.
This process will help you avoid spending your money on developing a design that has significant prior art problems. In addition, a design patent search will provide information regarding market competition and any modifications required to the design.
It can identify granted design patents, design patent applications, registered designs, and publicly disclosed designs, including product listings, catalogs, brochures, etc.
Based on your needs, we can conduct research within the databases of USPTO, WIPO, and regional design registries, Design View, commercial databases, design classifications, product catalogues, marketplaces, and manufacturer sites.
It is normally enough to send us a sketch, photograph, or CAD drawing that illustrates your design. Also, please let us know which elements you consider new and in which jurisdictions you want to obtain protection.
Do not wait until a patent examiner does the research for you! Just send us your sketch, photo, or design file, and we will evaluate your requirements and give you a quote and timeframe for completion.
