If your design is a sketch or artwork, then copyright is the appropriate choice. If your design will be used as a logo for marketing, then trademark protection is your best option.

To apply for copyright protection, complete the copyright registration for the type of design you're registering. For example, if you're copyrighting a sculpture, you'll use Form VA for visual arts.

Which is the more appropriate legislation for designers to protect their collections?

More specifically, this decision has impacted copyright protection for design features incorporated into useful products. Design features can be protected by design patent too, according to Berman ...

So you thought your designs were protected by copyright? A recent High Court decision has highlighted the limited protection available to product designers under existing copyright laws.

Therefore, the viability of plaintiff’s copyright claim hinged on whether its color and design elements were “conceptually separate” from the cheerleading uniform.

As part of Mintz Levin’s continuing Intellectual Property series on the practical applications of copyright, trademark, and patent law, this article ...

“The Report concludes that AI can improve efficiency in detecting and enforcing copyright and design infringements, but that use of AI technologies for criminal purposes (including copyright and ...

Patrick Cariou’s lawsuit against artist Richard Prince for wrongfully appropriating his photographs of Rastafarians into new artworks provided a benchmark for the role of copyright in ...

In-house counsel are clearer on getting copyright protection for designs but are worried by inconsistencies in the law and a perception that copyright is a “weaker” IP right ...