Advocacy Group
Designs Committee
Advocacy Group
- Anticounterfeiting Committee
- Brand Restrictions Committee
- Copyright Committee
- Data Protection Committee
- Designs Committee
- Emerging Issues Committee
- Enforcement Committee
- Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee
- Geographical Indications Committee
- Harmonization of Trademark Law and Practice Committee
- Indigenous Rights Committee
- International Amicus Committee
- Internet Committee
- Legislation and Regulation Committee
- Non-Traditional Marks Committee
- Parallel Imports Committee
- Right of Publicity Committee
- Trademark Office Practices Committee
- Unfair Competition Committee
Communications Group
Resources Group
- Academic Committee
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee
- Brands and Innovation Committee
- Commercialization of Brands Committee
- In-House Practitioners Committee
- INTA Bulletins Committee
- Law Firm Committee
- Leadership Development Committee
- Publications Committee
- Trademark Administrators Committee
- The Trademark Reporter Committee
- Young Practitioners Committee
Mission
The Designs Committee develops and advocates our policy related to design rights.
The Committee monitors design cases, legislation, and regulations in various jurisdictions, including at the international, regional and national levels, and proposes policy recommendations to the Board.
Committee work includes writing reports and submissions, interacting with government officials and design organizations, raising awareness among members of design-related issues, and advocacy in conjunction with relevant committees and staff.
Leadership
Committee Leaders
Chair
Christian Spintig
Heuking Kuhn Luer Wojtek
Germany
Vice Chair
Iván Sempere
PADIMA
Spain
Staff Liaison
Carolina Oliveira
Subcommittee
Design Enforcement Subcommittee Chair
Laurence Morel-Chevillet
B V L G A R I
Italy
Design Harmonization and Emerging Issues Subcommittee Chair
Garfield Goodrum, Jr.
Garfield Goodrum, Design Law
United States
Design Law and Practice Subcommittee Chair
Bruce Longbottom
Eli Lilly
United States
Highlights
Model Design Law Guidelines to enable us to advocate good design law policy around the globe.
Guidelines for Examination of Industrial Designs to serve as a baseline standard for the practice of Industrial Property (IP) Offices in the examination of design applications.
The Committee has been actively participating in the evaluation of the European Union designs system and advocating for a new legal framework to provide more harmonized, clear, efficient, and user-friendly procedures taking into account new technologies. Based on the Committee’s input, INTA has:
- Submitted along with ECTA and MARQUES a Joint Paper on Legal Review of EU Designs System to the European Commission and the EUIPO in July 2018
- Submitted a Contribution to the Consultation on Design Protection in the EU to the European Commission in April 2019
- Promoted accession to the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, based on the Board Resolution of November, 2016
EUROPEAN UNION and UNITED KINGDOM: Design Copyrights—Courts Interpret ‘Cofemel’ on Aesthetic Appeal and Functionality
André Meyer
March 15, 2020
Two recent copyright cases from January and February 2020 considered the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Cofemel-Sociedade de Vesturário SA v. G-Star Raw CV (Case C-683/17, Sept. 12, 2019). In this case, the CJEU confirmed “that the Copyri...
MEXICO: Declarations Under Hague Agreement and New IP Law
Octavio Espejo
May 1, 2020
On March 6, 2020, the Director General of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) deposited the instrument of accession to the (1999) Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement, making Mexico the first Spanish-speaking Latin American country to do so. At the same time,...
