The fight between insurers and car manufacturers as to whether and, if so how, to protect the design of spare parts for cars delayed the implementation of an EU regulation on design protection for ...

It is a common misconception, particularly among multinational businesses, that the European design protection system is nearly identical to the design patent system in the United States. In fact, ...

Industrial Design protection is provided for a shape, configuration, surface pattern, colour, or line (or a combination of these), which, when applied to a functional article, produces or increases ...

Protection Strategy The possibility of protecting a product design through other forms of intellectual property vehicles in addition to an industrial design should be considered on a case by case ...

This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight Design protection has taken on an increasingly important role in recent years, ...

Despite their strength and versatility, design rights remain underused. As Wässingbo notes, “Maybe one can say that design is often in the shadow of patents, utility patents, and trademarks.” Indeed, ...

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the Act on the Legal Protection of Designs at National Level (Act XLVIII, 2001); the EU Community Design Regulation (6/2002), which covers registered and unregistered designs at EU level; and the ...

The system is an up-to-date, reliable and effective way to protect design rights on the regional level, explains Arman Sauganbayev Gorodissky & Partners (Kazakhstan office). The Eurasian design ...

Reference [1] describes a process for the design of lightning protection that transforms the transient experienced by the components during the lightning test transient into the reference transients ...

Overvoltage protection of AC power lines is a common practice, which encompasses a variety of protection circuit solutions. Most designs are cost-driven and tend to use only the bare minimum of ...