What types of IP can you register with us?
A trade mark legally protects your brand, and helps customers distinguish your goods and services from competitors.
You can use a trade mark for a logo, word, phrase, letter, number, sound, scent, picture, movement, aspect of packaging, or any combination of these.
Examples of trade marks
Logo
Colour
Shape
A patent legally protects your invention or how something works.
You can use a patent for new technology, devices, substances or processes.
Examples of patents
Technology
Google Maps
Device
Cochlear implant (bionic ear)
Substance
Polymer (plastic) bank notes
A design right legally protects the overall appearance of your new and distinctive product. The appearance may be a combination of shape, colour, configuration pattern and ornamentation.
You can use a design right for the look of a whole, physical product if you're producing it on a commercial scale.
Examples of design rights
Zimmermann dress
Audi car model
King Furniture sofa
A plant breeder's right (PBR) legally protects the new plant variety you have developed.
You can use a PBR for new variations of plants and trees including flowers, vegetables, fruits, bushes and shrubs.
Examples of PBRs
Barley
Spartacus CL
Apple
ANABP 01
Flower
LegacyFlame
Maximise your protection with multiple IP rights
You may need to protect your idea with multiple types of IP rights.
What are the other types of IP protection?
There are other types of IP that we don't administer rights for. This includes copyright, circuit layouts and trade secrets.