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Designs Without Borders: What The Riyadh Design Law Treaty Means For Indian Businesses Expanding Abroad
It is worth being precise about what the Riyadh Design Law Treaty does and does not do. It does not harmonise the substantive law of what qualifies as a protectable design, nor does it create a single global design right. What it harmonises is procedure the formalities an applicant must satisfy when seeking design protection in a member country. That may sound modest, but for businesses filing across multiple jurisdictions, procedural divergence is precisely where cost, delay and lost rights accumulate.
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