What are the precautions when applying for a design patent?

I. Conditions for Granting a Patent for Design Article 23 of the Patent Law stipulates that "the patented design does not belong to the existing design; No unit or individual has filed an application with the patent administration department of the State Council for the same design before the filing date, and it is recorded in the patent documents published after the filing date ". Article 2 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law stipulates that a design shall be "suitable for industrial application". Combining these two provisions, the patented design should have two conditions: novelty and practicality. 1. The novelty of novel design is basically the same as the novelty of invention or utility model, which means that the patented design should be obviously different from the existing design or the combination of existing design features. The new patent law improves the substantive conditions for granting the patent right of design, that is, the design formed by imitating the existing design or simply piecing together the existing design features is not authorized. In addition, the new patent law also stipulates that "designs that mainly play a symbolic role in patterns, colors or the combination of the two" will not be granted a design patent. 2. Practical design is a new design with aesthetic feeling and suitable for industrial application based on the shape, pattern or their combination of products and the combination of color, shape and pattern. Without industrial products, it cannot exist independently. Therefore, the design must be able to be applied in industry and have industrial practicability. Second, what are the precautions when applying for a patent for design? 1. To apply for a patent for design, a request for a patent for design, a design picture or photograph and a design specification shall be submitted. The application documents are in duplicate, and the relevant contents shall be filled in according to the requirements of filling in the form. 2. To apply for a patent for design, you must submit pictures or photos in duplicate. At the same time, an application for a patent for design requesting color protection shall submit two copies of color pictures or photographs. 3. The first page of a picture or photograph uses the specification sheet of the State Patent Office, and the continuation pages can use white paper of the same size and quality. Use only the front side of the paper, with a blank around it, 25mm in the upper left and 15mm in the lower right. The application and registration of design patents can better protect the rights and interests of the obligee, but the process of application and registration is very complicated and professional, and mistakes in the process are easy to cause controversy. So I suggest you consult a professional patent lawyer, and I believe you can get better help from them.