Industrial Design Protection and Emerging Technologies

• Jurisdiction: European Union
• Author: Charles-Henry Massa

Speaker

Charles-Henry Massa is a legal professional who has been working as a référendaire (legal secretary) at the General Court of the European Union in Judge Kancheva’s chambers since 2012. He holds a law degree from the University of Liège (ULiège) and a Master of Laws from Trinity Hall at Cambridge University and Harvard Law School. He has also qualified as an attorney at the Brussels Bar and served as an assistant at ULiège and FUSL (now UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels).

Charles-Henry Massa has been a lecturer at ULiège since 2010 and teaches the Design Law course within the LL.M. in Competition Law and Intellectual Property. From 2013 until 2019, he also taught intellectual property at the Summer University of the Fondation pour le droit continental, organised in synergy with Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

Topic

This e-presentation provides an overview of the legal framework that governs the protection of computer-aided designs (CADs), 3-D printing, and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in the European Union (EU). The presentation first explains the technologies involved in these areas, giving the audience a solid understanding of their basic functionalities. It then delves into the EU legal framework that applies to these technologies, including relevant legislation, regulations, and case law.

Related documents

Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs

Directive 98/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs

Commission regulation (EC) No 876/2007 of 24 July 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community designs following the accession of the European Community to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs (Text with EEA relevance)

Case C-720/18 Court of Justice, Ferrari S.p.A. v DU, 22 october 2020

Case C-809/18 Court of Justice, European Union Intellectual Property Office v John Mills Ltd., 11 november 2020

Related videos

Invoking Copyright in Trademark and Design Matters

Trade Mark and Design Infringement on the...