DesignG (EN)
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Sections
Division 1 Protection requirements
- Section 1 — Definitions
- Section 2 — Design protection
- Section 3 — Exclusion from design protection
- Section 4 — Components of complex products
- Section 5 — Disclosure
- Section 6 — Grace period for novelty
Division 2 Entitled persons
- Section 7 — Right in registered design
- Section 8 — Formal entitlement
- Section 9 — Claims against non-entitled persons
- Section 10 — Citation of designer
Division 3 Registration procedure
- Section 11 — Application
- Section 12 — Multiple applications
- Section 13 — Date of filing
- Section 14 — Foreign priority
- Section 15 — Exhibition priority
- Section 16 — Examination of application
- Section 17 — Further processing of application
- Section 18 — Grounds for non-registrability
- Section 19 — Keeping of Register, registration and design information
- Section 20 — Publication
- Section 21 — Deferment of publication
- Section 22 — Inspection of Register
- Section 22a — Data protection
- Section 23 — Procedural provisions, appeal and appeal on points of law
- Section 24 — Legal aid
- Section 25 — Electronic conduct of proceedings, authorisation to issue statutory instruments
- Section 26 — Authorisation to issue statutory instruments
Division 4 Accrual and term of protection
Division 5 Registered designs as objects of property
- Section 29 — Succession in title
- Section 30 — Rights in rem, levy of execution, insolvency proceedings
- Section 31 — Licensing
- Section 32 — Design application
Division 6 Invalidity and cancellation
- Section 33 — Invalidity
- Section 34 — Entitlement to institute invalidity proceedings
- Section 34a — Invalidity proceedings before German Patent and Trade Mark Office
- Section 34b — Suspension
- Section 34c — Intervention in invalidity proceedings
- Section 35 — Partial maintenance
- Section 36 — Cancellation
Division 7 Protective effects and limitation of protection
- Section 37 — Object of protection
- Section 38 — Rights conferred by registered design and scope of protection
- Section 39 — Presumption of legal validity
- Section 40 — Limitation of rights conferred by registered design
- Section 40a — Repairs clause
- Section 41 — Right of prior use
Division 8 Legal infringements
- Section 42 — Removal, cessation and desistance, and damages
- Section 43 — Destruction, recall and release
- Section 44 — Liability of owner of enterprise
- Section 45 — Compensation
- Section 46 — Information
- Section 46a — Production and inspection
- Section 46b — Securing claims for damages
- Section 47 — Publication of judgment
- Section 48 — Exhaustion
- Section 49 — Limitation
- Section 50 — Claims under other statutory provisions
- Section 51 — Criminal provisions
Division 9 Proceedings in design litigation cases
- Section 52 — Design litigation cases
- Section 52a — Assertion of invalidity
- Section 52b — Counterclaim for determination or declaration of invalidity
- Section 53 — Place of jurisdiction for claims under this Act and under the Act Against Unfair Competition
- Section 54 — Reduction of value in dispute
Division 10 Provisions regarding measures taken by customs authority
- Section 55 — Seizure on import or export
- Section 56 — Confiscation, objection
- Section 57 — Jurisdictions, appellate remedies
- Section 57a — Procedure under Regulation (EU) No 608/2013
Division 11 Special provisions
- Section 58 — Domestic representative
- Section 59 — Arrogation of registered design
- Section 60 — Registered designs under Extension Act
- Section 61 — Typographic typefaces
Division 12 Community designs
- Section 62 — Forwarding of application
- Section 62a — Application of provisions of this Act to Community designs
- Section 63 — Community design litigation
- Section 63a — Communication to European Commission
- Section 63b — Territorial jurisdiction of Community design courts
- Section 63c — Insolvency proceedings
- Section 64 — Order for enforcement
- Section 65 — Punishable infringement of Community design
Division 13 Protection of registered designs under Hague Agreement
- Section 66 — Application of this Act
- Section 67 — Filing of international application
- Section 68 — Forwarding of international application
- Section 69 — Examination of grounds for non-registrability
- Section 70 — Subsequent withdrawal of protection
- Section 71 — Effect of international registration
Division 14 Transitional provisions
- Section 72 — Applicable law
- Section 73 — Limitations of rights
- Section 74 — Transitional provisions relating to the Act to Modernise the Design Act (Geschmacksmustergesetz) and to Amend the Regulations on Notifications of Exhibition Protection (Gesetz zur Modernisierung des Geschmacksmustergesetz sowie zur Änderung der Regelungen über die Bekanntmachungen zum Ausstellungsschutz)