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.

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

In fact, the amount of protection available varies widely. For example, graphic designers will automatically obtain copyright protection for any two-dimensional design they create regardless of the ...

“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 ...

Metaphysics is usually thought to be the province of philosophers or theologians. A recent decision by a U.S. District Court in Tennessee, Varsity Brands, Inc. v. Star Athletica, LLC, 110 U.S.P.Q ...

But in an earlier case, Rajesh Masrani vs. Tahiliani Design Pvt. Ltd., the infringing activity of copying was injuncted as the designs were not reproduced more than 50 times; thus the protection ...

Barnes & Noble, Inc., which held that where a book author had registered a copyright only for the "text" of a book, the "interior game boards and artwork" were not included within the scope of the ...

An increase in claims to protect designs with copyright could follow, he adds. Joel Smith, partner at Herbert Smith Freehills in London, agrees. “We will undoubtedly see other designers seek to rely ...