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.

In the new adition the following was added:

• Amendments by the German Design Act, in particular the introduction of the German official invalidity proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.
• Current case law.
• A revised and extended version of thetexts on design protection in the US, Japan, China and Korea.

This and the updated legal texts, ordinances and lists of concordances as well as a detailed subject index attached in the appendix have made the book an appreciated text book by scholars and and valuable tool for practitioners alike.