Registered Design Rights be they UK Registered Design Rights, European Registered Design Rights, US Design Patents or Registered Design Rights granted in other jurisdictions are highly useful Intellectual Property Rights that have been increasing in commercial...
Background The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann GbR (‘KaiKai’) filed a multiple design application for the registration of 12 community designs with the EUIPO on 24 October 2018, claiming priority based on a patent application (PCT/EP2017/077469) filed on 26 October...
When the UK left the European Union, the UKIPO granted comparable UK rights for all existing EU trade mark and design registrations. Such comparable UK rights were granted automatically with no action from the proprietor required. This was an invaluable solution for...
Miele had obtained a registration of a vacuum cleaner bag and Green Label applied to have this registration declared invalid. Green Label’s main argument was that a vacuum cleaner bag is component part of a complex product, the component is not visible during normal...
Overview Although there are many similarities between Australian design law and that in the EU, the Australian system (“The Commonwealth of Australia’s Designs Act 2003”) has been somewhat outdated in comparison. For example: No grace period was...
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