Hello, first one hundred designers

The 100-designer-mark is taken, now we’re heading for the next one. Tell your friends and collegues. This service is useful for every designer in the world.

Of course, local designers in Africa might not have much interest in being protected in Europe just like European designers are not focused on African design protection. But the truth is, that you might never know, when even the far away designer will be in  need for Designprotection.com. One example:

A good designer in a foreign country on a different continent draws a fashion design, that is produced and shipped to European stores. She or he might not talk to a lawyer, expecting high cost of intellectual property protection in Europe. Instead, they can get European design protection for free. Let them know and you do help them.

Now, is it a problem, that Designprotection.com protects designs “only” in Europe? For those who can never ever get enough, it sure is. “Why should I protect my design there, if someone from Timbuktu can just take it anyhow?” they ask. Here is the reason:

99 out of 100 European designers will most likely never sell anything in Timbuktu just like in most other countries of the world. They are creating great designs for customers in their area. Maybe they have customers in a few surrounding countries, but those countries will also be part of Europe.

So what’s the problem if someone from Timbuktu uses your design without your permission? Does it hurt? No. Does it result in financial loss? No. Does it make you famous in places you have never been? Maybe. Does it help them? Yes.

Crying about regional limits of design protection is something you really shouldn’t practice. Stay focused on what you are doing and where your customers are. Thinking that way, Designprotection.com will most likely be very useful for you and most other designers.

Don’t wait and register now, it’s free.

Official launch on October 1st, 2009

DesignProtection.com has startet.

From now on every designer of the world can protect his and her designs with the unregistered community design, the european design-patent. Design protection is available at any time, from any place and it is free.

How this works is explained exactly in the Tutorial and on our Tour.

We hope for active usage.

Best wishes,
Your DesignProtection-Team

Participate in our closed beta - new codes here

If you want to be one of the first users of DesignProtection, register now and use one of these Beta-Codes:

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If you are a designer and you feel able to disclose your design to the public, you can do so on DesignProtection.com and this way protect your designs for three years in the whole European Union, from Ireland to Romania. Take the tour to learn more.

First 40 designs online, new beta-codes

First week is over and 40 new designs are online. Our most active designer was Carolina Matthes, check her (german) profile.

Besides there are fresh beta-codes:

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You can register here.

And because we were asked a few times - at DesignProtection.com you can protect your designs free after beta also, nothing will change on this part.

Some problems fixed, new tutorial

Unfortunately we faced some difficulties on the signup-form during the first week, it’s fixed now. Temporarily the upload of profile pics didn’t work, it’s functioning now as well. The entry form for new designs is still in work, we must ask for a little more patience and will write in our blog as soon as this (core) functionality is fixed and tested. Sorry for the delay.

We did rewrite the tutorial on design protection. If you want to find out, what’s free design protection is about, read it here on 4 pages: Guide to free design protection

And here, 10 additional beta codes:

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To sign up, click here.

Protect your work against design plagiarism

If you have developed a neat design, you might not be interested in everyone using without even asking you. To avoid this kind of design plagiarism, you sure need to protect your design. This can be expensive or …free.

If you choose the free version, visit Designprotection.com. There you protect your design for free in 27 countries of the european union, including UK, France, Germany, Italy and so on.

This service is very new so you need a beta code to register. Choose one of these codes or check more up-to-date posings in this blog.

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If you read this really late, beta might even be over and you can register right away. So take a look yourself to protect your design.

DesignProtection.com launched for Closed Beta

Tusch, we have opened the doors for early adopters. Closed Beta means that you need a beta code to register at Designprotection.com. You find Beta codes also in this blog, each day we publish 10 new ones (see german post).

Beta user can protect their designs for free. In return we appreciate your feedback on our service. What questions come to mind, where did you get stuck or lost, what could and what should be better. We will keep on coding and optimizing and glady convert your comments into usability.

You reach us best via email to beta[at]designprotection.com.

To find out more about protecting designs, click here.

Tick, tick, tick… official beta launch on Sep 1st 2009

We keep coding and testing. Official launch for beta is on

September 1st 2009

If you don’t have applied for beta yet, click here.

The biggest design rip off I have ever seen

TheNextWeb author Zee published a case of design plagiarism, which is in his view the biggest rip off ever. The simularities are indeed stunning, virtuelly every aspect has been copied, as Zee shows on his blog.

Until today I considered the design rip off at StudiVZ the biggest. They copied everything from Facebook and put their copied css-Files even in a folder called Fakebook. But since Facebook as well as StudiVZ are rather known for great usability than for great design, the case above is moving forward to be the first in place.

Well, about time DesignProtection.com opens up. Protected designs are definetly less ripped off than unprotected ones.

Welcome, this Blog has opened.

Dear reader, hello designers,

isn’t it furiating, when some unthankful customer takes a design from your portfolio and lets his html-knowing nephew build a website out of it? Or when you pitch in and lose but still find your design in the new campagne?

There is plenty of ways for a designer to lose. But on the other hand, new media offers plenty of advantages, designers never had before. There was no (realistic) way for a romanian designer to get in touch with a potential customer from france 15 years ago. Today they are just one language barrier away.

Times are neither worse nor better, just different. And different times need different solutions.

Designprotection.com will be your one-stop-solution to gain legal design protection for every country of the European Union. We are working on this process to be fast, easy and also free to use.

This blog will support english and german.

We keep you up to date on our progress.

Bookmark our feed and link to us.