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» Design Patents
Hawkshead creates designs from a blank sheet of paper. That is not to say that we will ignore prior art or your company's hall marks. However, the ability to create designs from scratch means that collectively we can make products that no one else has previously produced. It may involve incorporation of new parts working as an early taker of new technology.
Although this is rare, there are occasions where the work has sufficient novelty to be patentable. This has significant implications for your company. Assuming that the work is directly related to time and knowledge acquired in the execution of your project, the patent will be assigned to you or your company.
The designer or originator is usually named on the patent but the benefit from it is based on the assignment. We assign it to you without any hold over the patent or your company.