Open AccessNEW INSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN UKRAINE — UNREGISTERED INDUSTRIAL DESING
Author(s) -
Олександр Дорошенко,
Людмила Работягова
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
teorìâ ì praktika ìntelektualʹnoï vlasnostì
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2519-2744
pISSN - 2308-0361
DOI - 10.33731/42020.216941
Subject(s) - parliament , intellectual property , harmonization , legislation , law , european union , directive , political science , scope (computer science) , economic justice , business , international trade , politics , computer science , physics , acoustics , programming language
The article discusses the main provisions of the institution of intellectual property law — an unregistered industrial design, which was introduced into the legislation of Ukraine through the implementation of the provisions of Art. 212–217 Chapter 9 «Intellectual Property» ofthe Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the other hand, and harmonization with the norms of Directive 98/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs and Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs.The authors analyzed the main features of the legal protection of industrial designs as unregistered industrial designs, namely: without registration for a short period of time, with a limited scope of rights. The legal regulation of the protection of an unregistered industrial design in Ukraine is similar to the legal regulation of an unregistered industrialdesign of the Community and has the same advantages and disadvantages.Since the Community Design Regulation came into force, one important question has always lingered: can a design which is first disclosed outside the EU territory be protected by an unregistered Community design right when it is subsequently disclosed within the EU? The UK court’s recent reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union may finally will answer this question. The same question arises in relation to an unregistered industrial design in accordance with the new legislation ofUkraine and requires further clarification in law enforcement practice.Of equal interest is a date for assessing the novelty of a design. Is the date for assessing the novelty of a design for which unregistered Community design protection is the date on which the unregistered Community design protection for the design came into being according to the Regulation, or alternatively the date on which the relevantevent of disclosure of the design could reasonably have become known in the normal course of business to the circles specialized in the sector concerned, operating within the Community, or alternatively some other, and if so, which date?