Intellectual Property Law Firm
34+ Years
of design protection
We work with designers and engineers to safeguard the shape and appearance of their innovations. We help the foremost design-driven companies obtain robust design protection and enforce their rights, in the US and around the world.
For over 34 years, our law firm has focused on legal protection for designs. When it comes to crafting a protection strategy for designs, we are experienced with and creatively consider all IP tools, including utility patents, trademark, trade dress, copyright and contract, and we are particularly experienced in US design patent law and international design registrations and patents.
Founded to focus a legal practice on design following a successful enforcement of a design patent in Federal District Court, Perry Saidman pioneered modern design patent law, helping countless applicants across the globe obtain design patents and registrations and writing extensively about design law and policy in articles and court briefs.
Today, our practice continues at the forefront of design law. We prepare and file applications, manage global portfolios, advise on validity and infringement and advocate for stakeholder interests for design protection as the significance of design and design law continue to expand globally.
Practice areas
Design is creative and multidisciplinary and design protection demands deep experience and a thoughtful approach. At DesignLaw Group, our expertise is well established and our practice continues at the forefront of design law.
Design Patent
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues patents for designs under 35 U.S.C. 171 to whoever invents any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. The subject matter of a design patent application may relate to the configuration or shape of an article, to the surface ornamentation applied to an article, or to the combination of configuration and surface ornamentation. Internationally, countries and organizations offer design protection through registrations or patents.
We work with applicants to protect all types of designs across the globe.
Trademark
Trademarks vitally designate the source of products and brands and permeate global commerce and culture.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and foreign trademark offices register word marks, stylized marks, logo marks, design marks, color marks, trade dress, product configurations and packaging and other source designating marks.
We work with applicants to protect all types of trademarks across the globe.
Copyright
The United States Copyright Office registers works of visual arts including a wide variety of pictorial, graphical, sculptural and architectural works. When evaluating registration of a useful article, the Copyright Office looks for original expression which is separable form the purpose-driven shape of the article.
Enforcement
We help applicants secure design rights globally through patents, registrations and contracts and enforce their rights against infringement by negotiation and coordinating takedown and litigation.
What can a design patent protect?
Design patents are incredibly versatile, protecting configuration and ornamentation for all types of articles of manufacture, as the design patents we help obtain for our clients exemplify. We are honored to work with design-driven and design-forward clients who take securing their design protection seriously. We work with designers, engineers, attorneys and businesspeople at companies across a wide range of products, services, industries and technologies, including automotive, earthmoving and industrial equipment, consumer and home electronics, computer and accessory hardware and software design, fashion, footwear and more.
DesignLaw Group
Our dedicated team of design law attorneys and support professionals have great enthusiasm for design and exceptional experience and ability to tackle your toughest design law challenges.
UNITED STATES
Design Patent Intel
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Our practice is experience and information driven. We research, monitor and communicate about design patent proceedings and developments of all types to inform our practice and network.
INTERNATIONAL
Design Law Intel
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DesignLaw Network
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In addition to our capable and dedicated team of legal and business professionals, we work with talented individuals in a growing global network of IP offices, US and international attorneys and law firms, legal service and software providers, and IP organizations to coordinate and implement comprehensive design protection, enforcement and advocacy for our clients.
Let’s connect
Contact us to let us know how we can help protect your design IP.
Please do not disclose confidential information.
contact@designlawgroup.com
Phone number
(301) 585-8601
