--- title: "Registered designs offers a very specific scope of protection." description: "A registered design is a form of monopoly right that is granted on the outward appearance of an article - It protects the way an article looks." image: https://spoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Registered-Designs-2.jpg canonical: https://spoor.com/zh/service/registered-designs/ url: https://spoor.getmd.ai/zh/service/registered-designs/.md last_converted: 2026-07-25T22:41:18.247Z --- ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://spoor.com/service/registered-designs/", "url": "https://spoor.com/service/registered-designs/", "name": "Registered designs offers a very specific scope of protection.", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://spoor.com/#website" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://spoor.com/service/registered-designs/#primaryimage" }, "image": { "@id": "https://spoor.com/service/registered-designs/#primaryimage" }, "thumbnailUrl": "https://spoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Registered-Designs-2.jpg", "datePublished": "2020-07-28T07:08:26+00:00", "dateModified": "2022-02-07T18:10:22+00:00", "description": "A registered design is a form of monopoly right that is granted on the outward appearance of an article - It protects the way an article looks.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://spoor.com/service/registered-designs/#breadcrumb" }, "inLanguage": "zh-Hans", "potentialAction": [ { "@type": "ReadAction", "target": [ "https://spoor.com/service/registered-designs/" ] } ] }, { "@type": "ImageObject", "inLanguage": "zh-Hans", "@id": "https://spoor.com/service/registered-designs/#primaryimage", "url": "https://spoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Registered-Designs-2.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://spoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Registered-Designs-2.jpg", "width": 1400, "height": 250, "caption": "A shoe design drawn in a white picture book. 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