Industrial Property Law
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: Administrative and professional organization
Part 2: Trademarks, service marks and other distinctive signs
Part 3: Patents
Title 1: Introduction
Title 2: Subject matter of protection
Section 1: Applicant
I: Presumption of ownership for person filing application
Section 3: Employee
Section 4: Action to reclaim ownership
Section 5: Principle of reciprocity
Chapter 2: Registration
Title 4: Rights conferred under design protection
Title 5: Protection of design
451. Presumption of copyright ownership
1 minute de lecture
Case law has established a presumption of copyright ownership in favor of a legal entity that exploits a design. In the absence of any claim to ownership of the design by the designer(s), even if identified, the use of a work by a legal entity under its own name gives rise to a presumption, in respect of third parties sued for infringement, that the legal entity is the proprietor of the economic r …