3.2 Justifications on Protection of Industrial Design

1. The design investment's reward — the styling's creation cost against the knock-off's free ride (the furniture, garments, footwear and consumer-goods worlds — the copy's speed problem). 2. The competition's quality-and-culture — the design race enriching the market's aesthetics and the consumers' choice. 3. The consumer's signal — the design as the origin-and-quality's face (the mark's cousin at the shelf). 4. The SME-and-craft development — Nepal's own stakes: the handicrafts, woodwork, pashmina, metal craft and garment sectors' design heritage, and their copying vulnerability — the design right as the craft economy's shield.