🎨 The Global Design Protection Puzzle

🌟 Imagine launching your revolutionary product design only to find copycats flooding the market within months. How do you protect your creative genius across different countries with completely different rules?

💡 What You'll Discover:

• 🔍 Why "absolute novelty" can make or break your design protection dreams
• ⚖️ The "average customer test" that decides if someone copied your design
• 🎯 How architectural rights clash with property ownership in surprising ways
• 🌍 Smart strategies for global design protection using international treaties

🚀 Real Cases Discussed:

• 💎 M.S. Croxing USA vs. M.S. Liberty Shoes Limited - How Crocs lost their design battle due to lack of novelty
• ⭐ V. Plast vs. Banjar - The "obvious imitation" test that protects against design theft
• 🏛️ Raj Rewal vs. Union of India - When architect's moral rights met property demolition
• 🍺 Carlsberg and Micolip cases - How trade dress protection saves the day when design rights fail

🛡️ Multi-Layer Protection Strategy:

• 🎪 The "50 reproduction rule" that kills copyright protection
• 🔒 Why smart companies use design rights, copyright, and trademark protection together
• 📋 How Paris Convention and Hague Agreement make global filing easier

🎙️ Whether you're launching the next big product or just curious about how design pirates get caught, this episode reveals the fascinating world where creativity meets legal strategy on a global stage!