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NOVELTY REQUIREMENT IN EU DESIGN LAW

Nikola Milosavljević

10.55836/PiP_25405A
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At the end of 2024, the European Union amended its legislation in the field of legal protection of industrial designs. The aim of the changes was primarily to modernize the system and make it more attractive while leaving the core of the protection system unchanged. The author examines in the paper whether there were essential things that should have been altered regarding novelty as a condition of protection. In this regard, by applying the historical and legal-dogmatic method and analyzing case law, as well as the practice of the European Union bodies, he attempts to answer the question of whether the novelty requirement is at all necessary in the system of legal protection of designs in the European Union. The aim of the paper is to stimulate scientific debate on the necessity of constant reform and improvement of the system of protection of industrial design rights.

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