Overall Impressions - A Bite-Sized Guide to Assessing Design Infringement

Introduction

You will know that a registered design is infringed by a product which produces the same overall impression on the informed user.

But what does that mean?

How close does the design have to be?

It sounds like an inherently subjective question but is there a reliable way to predict what a judge is going to say and advise?

This short webinar is suitable for patent attorneys, solicitors, IP managers and anyone who needs to be able to advise on infringement of registered designs.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The law on overall impression - what gets compared and how similar it has to be
• The role of the informed user
• The relevance of the design corpus
• Plenty of illustrative examples

This webinar was recorded on 5th September 2022