FH Legal Seminar: How To Protect Designs?
The FH invites its members to a seminar on the protection of watch designs. This will take place on 16 September, from 1.30pm, at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage in Neuchâtel.
In order for its outward form to remain the prerogative of its designer, a watch must be protected against any attempt at imitation. It is for this reason that in Switzerland, as is the case at European and international level, watchmakers have at their disposal a range of clearly defined legal means to defend their designs. The seminar organised by the FH this year, under the aegis of its Legal Committee, will focus on strategies for the protection of watch designs, a factor of crucial importance for our industry.
Jean-Daniel Pasche, President of the FH, will introduce speakers who have agreed to lend their support to this forum.
Marie Wollheim, legal adviser at the Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, will present the new Federal law on design (Ldes), which entered into force on 1st July 2002: procedure for registration in Switzerland, periods of extension of the duration of protection, publication, time limits to be respected and duties to be paid. All viewed of course from a watchmaking perspective.
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August 2003
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