Design

National Design Registration: the appearance of the whole or part of a product resulting from its features and, in particular, lines, contours, colours, shape, texture or materials or ornamentation that are new and have individual character may be registered with the Designs Registry of the Patent Office;

Registered Community Designs: the appearance of the whole or part of a product resulting from its features and, in particular, lines, contours, colours, shape, texture or materials or ornamentation that are new and have individual character may be registered with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market ("OHIM");

Unregistered Community Designs: an exclusive right to prevent use as a result of copying subsists automatically throughout the EC in a new design with individual character that is first made available to the public in the EC;

Unregistered Design Right: an exclusive right not to have articles made to an original design subsists automatically in the UK in the design of certain aspects of shape or configuration of the whole or part of a 3-dimensional;

Artistic Copyright: copyright subsists automatically in designs of fabrics, wall coverings and other surface decoration that are contained in original artistic works;

Semi-conductor Chip Topographies: original designs of patterns or arrangement of patterns of semiconductor material are protected from copying in the UK as a chip topography by a modified national unregistered design right.