Prof. Bulling’s team of authors explains in the usual clear, practice-oriented and easy-to-understand way the requirements for protection, application procedures and registration of designs not only according to German and European law, but also concerning the US, Japan, China and Korea. The authors also present the nullity and infringement proceedings and related legal remedies with the necessary precision. In doing so, they took into account the amendments to the German Design Act, which came into force in 2014, and the current case law.(Read more…)

Despite the present uncertainty regarding the implementation of the Unitary Patent, the European Patent Office has now published the first edition of the Unitary Patent guide.(Read more…)