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
Title 3: Acquisition of property rights
Section 1: Prohibited acts
I: Certificate of registration
II: Identical design or model
A: Overall visual impression/Informed observer
B: Assessment based on similarities
IV: Infringer in good faith
Section 3: Cumulative protection
Section 4: Transfer of ownership rights
Chapter 2: Limits to exclusive rights
Title 5: Protection of design
480. Likelihood of confusion
1 minute de lecture
French case law has long required the existence of a likelihood of confusion to uphold the infringing nature of an imitation of a design , even though this criterion is not included in the texts, and the courts still sometimes persist in doing so . The Court of Cassation has now reversed this solution ruling that when the products in dispute reproduce the essential characteristics of the registere …
