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3. Examples of partial designs (3)
---Comprehensive registrations of whole, partial, and components designs.
Case6. “Backhoe”
This is an example of comprehensive registration of a whole design, partial designs, and designs of components of a backhoe. This requires early planning of strategic filings.
Step 1: Completion of prototype
Upon completion of a prototype, the basic concept of the design, which would may not be altered, was identified. After determining the main feature of the design, an application for the design feature (the rotating part having a counterweight and an engine-hutch) was filed prior to filing an application for the whole design.
Simultaneously, two more design applications were filed for modifications to the basic design (related designs).
At this stage, since it became clear that the shapes of the counterweight and the bottom part of the boom would not be changed, a decision was made to file design applications for these shapes.
Step 2: Completion of a working model
Six month later, a working model was completed. An application for the whole design of the working model and an application for its related design were filed.
Further analysis was made as to whether design applications should be filed for designs that have been developed since completion of the prototype. As a result, it was decided that design applications would be filed for the whole design and a partial design for a “quick-hitch” (boom-connecting part).
By filing design applications step by step, an earlier filing date was secured for the partial design of the most important design feature.
It is very important to plan strategic design filings early in view of the requirement that an related design application must be filed on the same date as the principal design application, and an application for a partial design must be filed on the same date or earlier than the filing date of the whole design.
Case 6. Design Registration No. 1105905 for “Backhoe”
Step 1:Completion of prototype
Step 2: Completion of a working model
Case7. Engine
Unlike the above example, in this case, all the design applications, i.e., that for the whole design, the components and the partial designs, were filed on the same date. For this case, strategic design filings were planned only after completion of a working model.
For the whole design, applications for a principal design and a related design were filed. In the related design, only one duct is curved at the top of the engine. This is the major difference between the principal design and the related design. A component design application was filed for the coolant pump. Two related designs were filed for variations. Design applications for partial designs were strategically planned as follows:
Part A relates to a partial design of a duct. Part B relates to a partial design of an LO cooler at the side of the engine, and a registration for a related design thereof has been granted. Part C relates to a partial design of the protruding part at one side of the bottom of the design. Part D relates to a partial design of the manifold. Part E relates to a partial design of the two ducts that extend to the manifold and the supercharger. Part F relates to a coolant pump and a Y-shaped pipe arrangement part.
Engines like this are hard to break into components due to structural reasons. In this design, characteristics of the design lay the location of the parts. For articles like this, it is very difficult to fully protect the design only with a whole design. That is why the above partial designs were applied for.
Case 7. Design Application No. 2000-27596 for “Engine ”(registered)
Case 7. Design Application for the whole design for “Engine ”
Case 7. Design Application for the component for “Engine ”
Case7. Partial Design Application for “Engine ”
