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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs. For instance, the existence of a patent may be used by competitors to argue that the design is dictated by function and should therefore be ineligible for protection. The analysis is offered from the US, the UK, and the EU perspectives.