In E-commerce Era: Cracking Infringement Issues in the Clothing Industry by Design Patents

Jing Ye

2025

Abstract

Rights holders and consumers have been negatively impacted by infringement issues in the clothing field as e-commerce explodes in recent decades with imitations. The paper studies how design patents can crack infringement issues with its best efficiency. Although there are copyright law and patent law safeguarding these legal issues, copyright law has its threshold for clothing, which creates a significant loophole for plagiarism. This makes researching design patents a better way for right holders to defend their designs. Unfortunately, application time for design patents is too long for clothing industry as clothing cycle lasts approximately four months, while application process normally undergoes six to eight months. The application progress makes designers to uphold their rights difficult, therefore, shortening time cycle is the priority. Furthermore, authorities can reference ways such as concept of unregistered designs and combination of design patents and other rights, protecting the same design with different rights simultaneously.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ye J. (2025). In E-commerce Era: Cracking Infringement Issues in the Clothing Industry by Design Patents. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Education and Social Development - Volume 1: IESD; ISBN 978-989-758-779-5, SciTePress, pages 23-26. DOI: 10.5220/0013962200004912

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iesd25,
author={Jing Ye},
title={In E-commerce Era: Cracking Infringement Issues in the Clothing Industry by Design Patents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Education and Social Development - Volume 1: IESD},
year={2025},
pages={23-26},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013962200004912},
isbn={978-989-758-779-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Education and Social Development - Volume 1: IESD
TI - In E-commerce Era: Cracking Infringement Issues in the Clothing Industry by Design Patents
SN - 978-989-758-779-5
AU - Ye J.
PY - 2025
SP - 23
EP - 26
DO - 10.5220/0013962200004912
PB - SciTePress