Fashion Intellectual Property

Fashion Intellectual Property

How do patents protect intellectual properties such as fashion designs from similar products?

Patents don’t really protect fashion designs. A more common approach to protect such intellectual property is trademark registration for a specific namebrand of clothing. This helps differentiate the “authentic” from the knockoff.

There has also been some discussion of fashion design falling under copyright protection but was largely dismissed.

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