Legal Protection of Designs - Extended Impact Assessment.
The Council of the European Union has published a Commission Staff Working Document No. COM(2004)582 final "Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 98/71/EC on the legal protection of designs - Extended Impact Assessment". The extended impact assessment has been drawn up making use of the available data at the disposal of the Commission. In particular the answers to the questionnaire sent in 1999 (to vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, independent component producers, insurance companies, parts distributors, repairers and consumer organisations), the results of the impact study undertaken in 2003, the various reviews and reports concerning Intellectual Property Rights, IPR, and the data sent to the Commission by other interested parties.
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Dipl.-Phys. Axel H Horns is Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney),
European Patent Attorney as well as European Trade Mark Attorney. In particular, he is Member of: