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Last updated: 2 October 2026
If your product’s shape, configuration, pattern or ornamentation sets it apart, design registration protects that appearance for up to 15 years. Expertvuw’s team prepares the representation sheets and application for filing with the Designs Office through registered agents.
The Designs Act, 2000 protects the features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or composition of lines or colours applied to an article, as judged by the eye. The design must be new or original, not previously published or used anywhere in the world, and significantly distinguishable from known designs. Purely functional features, trademarks and artistic works as such are not registrable as designs.
Applications are filed with the Patent Office (Designs wing) under the Locarno classification, with representation sheets showing the article from different views. Official fees are lower for natural persons, startups and small entities (₹1,000 application fee) than for others (₹4,000). Once registered, protection lasts ten years and can be extended once by five years, for a total of 15 years.
Because novelty is judged against prior publication, designs should be filed before products are launched, displayed at trade shows or shown online.
Basis: Designs Act, 2000; Designs Rules, 2001 as amended (including the Designs (Amendment) Rules, 2021); IP India fee schedule. Last updated: 27 September 2026.
Shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or lines/colours applied to an article.
Must be new and not published or used before filing.
₹1,000 for natural persons, startups and small entities; ₹4,000 for others.
10 years, extendable once by 5 years.
Purely functional features and trademarks.
File before launch, exhibitions or online display.
Most failures relate to prior disclosure and drawings.
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Design registration connects with these services.
Protecting inventions.
Protecting your brand.
Protecting artistic works.
Protecting designs before filing.
Search for similar existing designs.
Create representation sheets.
File the application with fees.
Designs Office examines.
Answer any objections.
Design registered and published.
Maintain and enforce your design.
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The shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or composition of lines or colours applied to an article.
Ten years, extendable once by five years.
Novelty is judged against prior publication, so prior public disclosure can defeat registration. File before launch.
₹1,000 for natural persons, startups and small entities, and ₹4,000 for others.
No. A design protects appearance; a patent protects technical function.
ACS – Director, Expertvuw Management Pvt Ltd
Trademark, copyright and design filings are prepared by Expertvuw’s team and filed through registered trademark agents or advocates where the law requires. Patent drafting and prosecution are handled by independent registered patent agents, and representation before the Registrar, the Controller or courts is made by agents or advocates.