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The
appearance of a product in particular
results from the features of the lines, the contours, the colours, the shape, the texture and/or the materials of the product itself and/or of its ornamentation.
A product is any object manufactured according to industrial or traditional methods, including, among other things, parts intended to be assembled into a complex product, as well as packaging, get-up, graphic symbols and typographic characters.
A design can encompass both the product itself (and thus be a three-dimensional creation) or the ornamentation of the product (and thus be a two-dimensional creation).
Having regard to the definition, the protection of a design can cover a wide variety of products.
An idea as such can however not be protected. Only its realization.
However a computer program is not considered to be a product . It is therefore specifically excluded from design protection, although it might possibly be protected by a copyright or a patent. |
