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unregistered design right

noun/ˌʌnˈredʒɪstəd dɪˈzaɪn raɪt/

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

An automatic right protecting the shape or configuration of an article, arising without any registration.

Even without filing, the studio relied on unregistered design right to stop copying of the vacuum cleaner's form.

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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