Survey About Design Protection
Share your feedback about the EUIPO Unregistered Community Design concept.

We kindly ask your opinion on the new concept introduced by EUIPO in 2022, the Unregistered Community Design. In particular, we are seeking responses from those who are in a position of organising a wide range of events, and festivals, but also individual designers, and SMEs introducing new products. Please share the short questionnaire among your members, to gain first-hand feedback on the usefulness of the concept. 

"Protection for unregistered Community designs has been effective since 6 March 2002. Designs disclosed for the first time on or after this date will be protected. There is no protection for designs disclosed before this date." 

"Disclosure is making a design available to the public in such a way that the interested circles operating within the European Union (EU) can reasonably be aware of the design. The date and means of disclosure are essential: it creates an unregistered Community design right, but can conversely destroy the novelty of a registered design if the latter is not applied for within 12 months of disclosure. Disclosure must take place within EU territory to create an unregistered Community design right.”
Please complete the questionnaire before 31 July 2023. 

BEDA is assisting the EUIPO in collecting feedback for this questionnaire.
If you have any questions, please contact Anna Kohut-Janko, BEDA board member at anna.janko@hipo.gov.hu.

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1. Do you have any specific needs regarding design protection before the events/trade fairs?
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If yes, how could the EUIPO support you?
2. Do you have any specific needs regarding design protection at the events/trade fairs? 
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If yes, how could the EUIPO support you?
3. Do you have any specific needs regarding design protection after the events/trade fairs? *
If yes, how could the EUIPO support you?
4. Do you provide support to your customers regarding design protection before disclosure? *

5. Do you provide support to your customers regarding enforcement after design infringement? 

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6. Do you offer any kind of virtual space for design disclosure?
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7. Do your customers rely upon disclosure at events as a means to protect their designs?
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8. Do your customers register designs before disclosing them at the events, or simply wait to confirm that the product itself has potential before registering?
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9. Are your customers interested in protecting their designs as IP rights?
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If so, do they know how to register a design, and how easy & cost-effective it is?

10. Are your customers aware of the differences between registered designs (RCD) and unregistered designs (UCD) in terms of costs and protection? *
11. Do your customers expect that the event organizers protect their ideas or designs?
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12. Would you be interested in having the presence of EUIPO at your events? *
If yes, then for what purpose?
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