Digital design protection in Europe: Law, trends, and emerging issues

Rainer Filitz, Joachim Henkel and Jörg Ohnemus

No 17-007, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: Digital designs - that is, designs for display on electronic screens - have recently burst onto the intellectual property (IP) stage. While in the U.S. a smattering of legal studies have recently addressed the question of digital design as a copyright-, trademark- and patent-eligible subject matter, a European perspective is still lacking in the literature. This study provides an overview of basic legal background to the protection of digital designs in Europe, explores firms'actual digital design protection behaviors, and highlights some important practical and doctrinal issues that warrant further study

Keywords: digital designs; intellectual property; RCD; interviews; survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K11 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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