In order to get a better understanding of how I will be licensing the products within my proposal I began looking at many different resources, The content was hard to get through and my mind struggles with the clinical/ legal side of things. I found a useful resource on the investni website which had an entire lecture posted about designs so I decided to watch it.
I discovered that all products are registered and protected, registered designs cover the 3d or 2d shape of products such as certain perfume bottles but the fragrance itself is not protected as it is a recipe essentially. There is no protection for how things work or what they do, it’s protected by patent. An example could be the key the front of the key has to be a particular shape in order to perform its function however the pat end of the key can be patented as it can be any shape at all.
When designing a brand it needs to have individual character and can not replicate any others as it does not have individual character. You can buy licensing of protected content in order to use certain things for example Nike could license their logo to me in order to use their logo in professional settings. I was able to determine that I own all my designs and can either license them to a client if they were to accept such a deal or I could sell the rights to them which is probably a better option for my proposal.
In terms of payment, I would divide the full sum of the job into three sections, the first section would be paid right away in order for work to begin. The second section would be paid mid-project and the final section upon project completion. Only after the project is completed would the client then own the work I have completed and have the responsibility to register the work for themselves in order to have full legal ownership.