Appearance patents
Item specifics
- Period
- 2023/1/7 - 2033/1/1
- Certification bodies
- National Intellectual Property Office
Certificate description
A design patent is the object of a patent right, the object of protection under the patent law, and refers to a design for which a patent right should be granted in accordance with the law. It is completely different from invention or utility model, i.e. design is not a technical program. [2] A design is a design program for the appearance of a product. In Article 2 of China's Patent Law, it is stipulated that “design means a new design which is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial application of the whole or a part of a product in terms of its shape, pattern or combination thereof, as well as the combination of color and shape or pattern.”
It can be seen that a design patent should meet the following requirements:
(1) It is a design of shape, pattern or combination thereof and combination of color and shape or pattern;
(2) It must be a design of the product as a whole or in part;
(3) It must be aesthetically pleasing;
(4) It must be suitable for industrial application;
(5) It must be a new design.