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Feb 04, 2014 (Newsletter Issue 2/14)
Germany
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German Designs Act Revised


The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) has revised the German Designs Act with effect from 1 January 2014.

The major changes are:
- The German term "Geschmacksmuster" has been replaced by the term "registered design".
- A design invalidity proceeding before the German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO) has been introduced. Before, a request had to be filed in a law suit at a Civil Court. Now an application for invalidity of a registered German design can be filed directly with the GPTO.
- Further, different designs can now be included in one multiple application, even if they do not belong to the same class of goods.
- The new publication medium is the German Federal Gazette.

Source: www.dpma.de