KIPO – Overview of the Design System

Overview of the Design System


  • History of the Korean industrial design protection system
  • What is a design?
  • Design application system
  • Information on the design system
    • Similar design system
    • Set item design
    • Secret design system
  • Requirements for a design definition
    • Merchantability
    • Configuration (shape, pattern, color)
    • Visibility
    • Aesthetics
  • Prerequisites for acquiring design rights
    • Industrial applicability
    • Novelty
    • Creativity
    • Enlarged concept of the first-to-file system
    • Unregistrable designs
    • First-to-file system
  • Design rights
    • Term of a design right
    • Commencement of a design right
    • Effect of a design right
    • Restriction of a design right
  • Design right infringement remedies
    • Civil remedy
    • Criminal remedy
  • Revision of Industrial Design laws

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