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Recently, the high-value added or differentiated products with creative design have come to be important in the modem market, the government sees weighs design as the nation's industrial strategy, and the enterprises takes the design strategy more aggressively in terms of company's brand strategy. From this point of view, this study investigates the reasonableness of protection method under the current substantive examination, and discusses the proper direction for design protection after the review of necessity for the conversion to a new system. This study analyzes the legislative trend of some foreign countries and the practices of domestic design protection system and it covers three alternatives: the maintenance the current substantive examination; the overall introduction of non-substantive examination; and introduction unregistered design.