Design Law

Edited by Dana Beldiman, Professor, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany and Professor-in-Residence, University of California Law San Francisco and Partner, Squire Patton Boggs LLP, San Francisco, USA

‘Of all of the branches of IP law, design law is the least harmonized. Look no further than the disparity in the names given to design rights in various jurisdictions– design patent, registered design, design model, industrial design, etc. Professor Beldiman has assembled a knowledgeable group of design law experts that span the globe who share insights on, and help bring clarity to, this underdeveloped area of intellectual property. The result of these considerable efforts is a must-have resource for design right practitioners, jurists, and scholars alike.’

• ContentsPreface xxviiIntroduction to Design Law 1Dana BeldimanPART I DESIGN LAWS AROUND THE WORLD COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY1 Overview of industrial design protection in Australia 27Stuart Irvine and Carl Harrap2 Industrial design law in Canada – 2024 77Robert Storey, Adam Bobker, Matthew Graff and James Raakman3 Design law in China 108Paolo Beconcini4 Industrial design law in France 156Catherine Mateu5 Industrial design law in Italy 181Marco F. Francetti and Matteo Mozzi6 Industrial design in India 206Shwetasree Majumder and Eva Bishwal7 Industrial design law in Japan 231Taketo Nasu8 Design Protection in the Nordic Countries (Denmark, Finland and Sweden) 262Teemu Matikainen, Jens Schovsbo and Marcus Norrgård9 Design patent law in the United States 291Elizabeth Ferrill, Kelly Horn, William Neer and Troy Viger10 Design law at the crossroads - a post-Brexit review of design protection in the UK 336Jane Cornwell and Lynne Chave11 Design prosecution before the EUIPO and the Court of Justice of the EU 377Henning HartwigPART II INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND JURISDICTION12 The functioning of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) for industrialdesign registration: realities and possibilities 427Chijioke Okorie13 The Draft Design Law Treaty’s forbidden words 441Margo A. Bagley14 Multistate infringement of design rights: jurisdiction and applicable law – the Europeanapproach 455Alexander von MühlendahlPART III PRESENT-DAY AND FUTURE TRENDS IN DESIGN LAW15 Redesigning design protection: The problem of overlap 484Shubha Ghosh16 Prior art in EU design law and its worldwide implications – taking advantage of flexibilities orbeing obstructed by ambiguities 503Lavinia Brancusi17 The concept of aesthetic creative freedom in design, copyright, and trademark law – a Europeanperspective 541Henning Hartwig18 Fashion and design law 582Ulrika Wennersten, Laurent Manderieux and Patricia CovarrubiaPART IV THE WAY FORWARD – A LOOK AT THE FUTURE19 Artificial intelligence and EU design law 612Mikko Antikainen and Heidi Härkönen20 Designing for the European Green Deal – A supplementary protection regime for circular designsin the EU 651Dana Beldiman, Stina Teilmann-Lock and Anna Tischner