Deposits or other substitution practices
Regulation and practices regarding packaging - Innovation protection

The deposit is mandatory.

First, you need to do some research to make sure there's no precedence.

Then you have to go through a procedure that is controlled by an ad hoc body:

• Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI) for designs, patents and trademarks registered in France;

• the European Union agency responsible for registering trademarks and designs in Alicante, Spain, officially known as the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM);

• the European Patent Office in Munich, which registers applications under a European treaty;

• the "International Office" of WIPO in Geneva (World Intellectual Property Organization) for international...