The Community Designs Handbook

This handbook provides a detailed description of the law and practice relating to design law in the European Union.

The Community Designs Handbook acts as a companion to the European Union Trade Mark Handbook.

It contains all the background materials and tools needed to understand and use the community design regulation.

The work takes a 'how-to' approach, taking the reader through all the various stages of registering a community design.

Each section begins with an executive summary and a content outline, followed by the detail. The commentary is procedural-based, and also includes references to UK-specific and international considerations.

Contents 

1. Introduction (inc representation and authorisation) 
2. Searching and community designs
3. Making a registered community design application
4. Examination: admissibility and amendments, subject-matter and morality
5. Deferred publication
6. Publication of registered community designs and inspection of files
7. The Hague Agreement
8. Invalidation – preliminaries and filing
9. Invalidation – procedure
10. Appeals
11. Duration and renewal of registered community designs
12. Entitlement
13. Assignments, licenses, rights in rem/security interests and other transactions relevant to community designs
14. Restitutio in Integrum
15. Unregistered community designs
16. Overlap with trade marks
17. Other parallel rights
    • UK rights
    • Overseas rights
18. Infringement
19. Defences to infringement
20. Enforcement of a community design

General editors

• Patricia Collis
• William Jones

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