Industrial Designs. Each Party shall ensure adequate and effective protectionof industrial designs in accordance with Articles 25 and 26 ofthe TRIPS Agreement.
Industrial Designs. 1. The Parties shall ensure in their national laws adequate and effective protection of industrial designs by providing a period of protection of at least ten years.
2. The Parties shall provide copyright protection for industrial designs if they may be considered as works of applied art and fulfil the general condition required for copyright protection by the respective domestic legislation. The term of protection shall be at least 25 years from the making of the work.
Industrial Designs. Each Party shall ensure adequate and effective protection of industrial designs. Each Party shall also ensure that, at the request of an applicant for industrial design registration, the registrability of the industrial design concerned may be considered by the competent authority based on the design of a part of an article instead of that of the article as a whole.
Industrial Designs. 1. Each Party shall provide for the protection of independently created industrial designs that are new or original. A Party may provide that:
A. designs are not new or original if they do not significantly differ from known designs or combinations of known design features; and
B. such protection shall not extend to designs dictated essentially by technical or functional considerations.
2. Each Party shall ensure that the requirements for securing protection for textile designs, in particular in regard to any cost, examination or publication, do not unreasonably impair a person's opportunity to seek and obtain such protection. A Party may comply with this obligation through industrial design law or copyright law.
3. Each Party shall provide the owner of a protected industrial design the right to prevent other persons not having the owner's consent from making, selling, importing or otherwise distributing articles bearing or embodying a design that is a copy, or substantially a copy, of the protected design, when such acts are undertaken for commercial purposes.
4. A Party may provide limited exceptions to the protection of industrial designs, provided that such exceptions do not conflict with the normal exploitation of protected industrial designs and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the owner of the protected design.
5. Each Party shall provide a term of protection for industrial designs available for the amount of at least 10 years.
Industrial Designs. 1. Each Party shall provide for the protection of independently created industrial designs that are new or original. Each Party shall provide that designs are not new or original if they do not significantly differ from known designs.
2. Each Party shall ensure that where more than one application for registration of industrial design relating to the same or similar industrial designs is filed on different dates, only the applicant who filed first may obtain a registration of the industrial design concerned.
3. Each Party shall ensure adequate and effective protection of industrial designs of a part of an article as well as an article as a whole.
4. Each Party shall ensure that an owner of protected industrial design has the right to prevent third parties not having the owner’s consent from making, selling or importing articles bearing or embodying a design which is identical or similar to the protected design, when such act is undertaken for commercial purposes.
5. Each Party shall endeavor to establish appeal system in which an appeal may be filed with the administrative authority for industrial designs against its decision of refusal of an application for registration of industrial design.
Industrial Designs. Failure to Work; Importation of Articles. —
Industrial Designs. 1. Each Country shall provide for the protection of independently created industrial designs that are new or original in accordance with Article 25 of the TRIPS Agreement.
2. Each Country shall ensure that a claimed industrial design shall not be new, if it is made available to the public through telecommunication line before the filing date of the application for the registration of industrial design or, where priority is claimed, the priority date of the application, in accordance with its laws and regulations.
3. Each Country shall endeavour to provide that a claimed industrial design shall not be new, if it is publicly known or described in a publication made available to the public in the other Country before the filing date of the application for the registration of industrial design in the former Country or, where priority is claimed, the priority date of the application, in accordance with its laws and regulations.
Industrial Designs. 1. Each Party shall provide for the protection of independently created industrial designs that are new or original. A Party may provide that:
(a) designs are not new or original if they do not significantly differ from known designs or combinations of known design features; and
(b) such protection shall not extend to designs dictated essentially by technical or functional considerations.
2. Each Party shall ensure that the requirements for securing protection for textile designs, in particular in regard to any cost, examination or publication, do not unreasonably impair a person's opportunity to seek and obtain such protection. A Party may comply with this obligation through industrial design law or copyright law.
3. Each Party shall provide the owner of a protected industrial design the right to prevent other persons not having the owner's consent from making or selling articles bearing or embodying a design that is a copy, or substantially a copy, of the protected design, when such acts are undertaken for commercial purposes.
4. A Party may provide limited exceptions to the protection of industrial designs, provided that such exceptions do not unreasonably conflict with the normal exploitation of protected industrial designs and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the owner of the protected design, taking into account the legitimate interests of other persons.
5. Each Party shall provide a term of protection for industrial designs of at least 10 years.
Industrial Designs. 1. Each Party shall provide for the protection ofindependently created industrial designs that are new ororiginal. Each Party shall provide that designs are not new or original if they do not significantly differ fromknown designs.
2. Each Party shall ensure that where more than oneapplication for registration of industrial design relatingto the same or similar industrial designs is filed ondifferent dates, only the applicant who filed first mayobtain a registration of the industrial design concerned.
3. Each Party shall ensure adequate and effectiveprotection of industrial designs of a part of an article aswell as an article as a whole. 4. Each Party shall ensure that an owner of protectedindustrial design has the right to prevent third partiesnot having the owner's consent from making, selling orimporting articles bearing or embodying a design which isidentical or similar to the protected design, when such actis undertaken for commercial purposes.
Industrial Designs. Article 12.9
