IP Services Industrial Design Services Filing Requirements for Industrial Design Applications in Russia In addition to the development of patentable technologies, one of the most important characteristics of new and useful products is the development of aesthetically pleasing product designs. Companies develop pleasant designs in order to improve the visual appearance of household objects, devices, and mechanisms, otherwise known as the creative designs of physical objects. Patenting such creative industrial designs protects the interests of owners against infringement and is equally important for individual craftsmen and corporate manufacturing enterprises, who are preparing for mass production. ARS-Patent provides a full range of services in connection to the obtainment of patents and the implementation and protection of rights to industrial designs. Our specialists have immediate access to international and Russian databases of registered industrial designs. At the initial stage of preparing applications for the registration of industrial designs, our skilled specialists perform searches to determine a particular design's novelty and develop solutions and strategies to avoid prior art. Only after performing prior art searches, do our specialists prepare and file patent applications for an industrial design, which causes a substantial time reduction for examinations and expedites the process of patent granting. Our specialists offer clients a wide-range of industrial design services, from instances of infringement to the preparation, negotiation, and litigation of licensing and co-existence agreements and their registration in the Russian Federation Patent and Trademark Office.

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