The European Union adopted a Design Reform Package in 2024, which entered into force on 1 May 2025, introducing significant changes to the protection framework for designs within the EU. This fact sheet highlights the key updates and is intended to provide readers with a clear understanding of what qualifies as an industrial design and how such designs can be protected under the revised EU framework.
The European Union adopted a Design Reform Package in 2024, which entered into force on 1 May 2025, introducing significant updates to the EU design protection framework. This infographic offers a concise overview of design protection in the European Union and highlights the main changes introduced by the reform.
Risks of investing in non-original design or filing an application for identical or confusingly similar design can be avoided or at least limited by performing design searching.This fact sheet focusses on the main characteristics of design searching as a best practice allowing companies and designers to keep up with the latest market trends and look at designs that may impede the possibility to acquire protection or infringe the rights on their design creations.