Industrial Designs: Benefits Of Registration

Introduction

Industrial Designs establish the language of a product as well as the corporate branding and identity of an enterprise. This article seeks to explain the concept of industrial designs, the requirements for its protection in Nigeria and the benefits of protection to the rights holder, the consumers and the economy.

Industrial Design as an aspect of Intellectual Property

Industrial design is an aspect of Intellectual property ("IP") which focuses on the appearance of a product, resulting from features such as the lines or colours of the product or its ornamentation. An industrial design may consist of 3-dimensional features such as the shape of a product (a Coca-Cola bottle) or two-dimensional features such as patterns (a design on a clothing), lines or colour of a product. It may even consist of a combination of features.