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
Chapter 1: Protectable creation
Chapter 2: Novelty
I: Overall visual impression
II: Informed observer
III: Freedom of the designer
Section 2: Assessment
Chapter 4: Complex product
Chapter 5: Exclusions
Title 3: Acquisition of property rights
Title 4: Rights conferred under design protection
Title 5: Protection of design
436. Concept
1 minute de lecture
In addition to the condition of novelty, protection under design law requires that the design has its own character ("caractère propre" - Art. L. 511-2 IP Code) . A design is distinctive when the overall visual impression it creates in the informed observer differs from that produced by any design disclosed before the filing date of the application for registration or before the priority date clai …