🎨 The Designer's Nightmare Scenario

🌟 Picture this: You've spent months perfecting your product's stunning visual design, invested money and effort, launched it successfully - only to discover someone else is copying it! But wait, you never registered the design. Are you completely helpless?

💡 What You'll Discover:

• 🔍 The "passing off" remedy - your secret weapon when formal registration fails
• ⚖️ Why copying isn't always enough to win a case (there's a crucial missing piece)
• 🎯 The three things you MUST prove to protect your unregistered design
• 🚨 When your legal protection becomes almost impossible to enforce

🚀 Real Cases Discussed:

• 💎 SmithKline Beecham vs. Hindustan Lever Limited - Delhi High Court's landmark ruling on unregistered design protection
• ⭐ Micro Labs India Limited vs. Rakesh Kumar - Why simply copying a shape isn't always illegal
• 🏛️ Mohanlal vs. Sona Paint & Hardware - The procedural complexity of fighting design theft

🔥 The Game-Changing Insights:

• 📊 How to build the evidence trail that courts actually want to see
• 🎭 Why "trade dress" protection goes far beyond just copying shapes
• 💼 The strategic differences between registered vs. common law protection
• ⏰ How fast-changing design trends make legal protection increasingly complex

🎙️ Whether you're a startup founder, designer, or business owner, this episode reveals the legal strategies that can save your creative work - even without formal registration!