Since 01.01.2014 the Law on the Legal Protection for Design ( Design Act, dated 10.10.2013) has been in force and thus has replaced the present Law on design patent. In addition to the terminological change of “design patents” as industrial property rights in “designs”, the application for a declaration of invalidity with the German Patent and Trademark Office (§ 34 Design Act) was implemented. This…
FCoJ rules about Copyrights on decorative arts
The Federal Court of Justice (FCoJ) ruled on November 13th, 2013, (Az: I ZR 143/12) about the copyright on decorative arts. Whereas, it was heavily questioned before this decision, if decorative arts were to be protected as copyrights in the same way as other works, this is now decided by the highest national court.