Multiple Design Applications

February 20, 2009
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

You may be a manufacturer of a range of jewellery and will want to file multiple design applications.

The procedure to follow will be the same as with a single design application as the South African law stipulates that you can only cover a single embodiment of a design in one application. You will thus need to make multiple design applications where you will file an application for every design in the range.

We provide reduced rates for such applications. It is also recommended that you wait until confirmation of filing before revealing any information about one of the items in the range.

If by accident information is revealed you should make sure that the design applications are filed within six months of the date of disclosure.

Also note that should you want to file for aesthetic and functional design rights for the same article that separate filings still need to be done.

Contact Details for Smit & Van Wyk

Tel:
+27 (0) 12 349 7800

Fax:
+27 (0) 86 619 0493

E-mail:
enquiries@svw.co.za

Physical Address / Courier
Block A Apex Corporate Park
Quintin Brand Street
Persequor Technopark
Meiring Naudé Avenue
Pretoria
0184
South Africa

Design Links

1. Identical Designs & Dispute Resolution – Should a situation arise where a dispute needs to be settled about two identical designs
2. Concept Design Registration – Our Designs Act provides for aesthetic and functional designs to be registered. Should you thus have a concept design
3. Interaction Design – Interaction design and User-experience design facilitate interactions between people and their environment.
4. Industrial Designs – Industrial designs in South Africa can be filed as Functional Design or an Aesthetic Design, or both.
5. Registered Design – Registered designs in South Africa: A Registered design can be filed as Functional Design or an Aesthetic Design, or both.
6. Aesthetic Design – The features of an Aesthetic Design are judged solely by the eye and are not involved in the function of an article.
7. Functional Design – Functional Design applies to the pattern, shape, ornamentation or configuration and performance of an article