Postępowanie o stwierdzenie naruszenia prawa do niezarejestrowanego wzoru wspólnotowego – zagadnienia ogólne

Abstrakt

This article aims to outline the nature of infringement action based on anunregistered community design. The author indicates the principles of this kind ofaction. The article consists of 4 parts (excluding introduction and final remarks).In the first part, the author indicates the rights conferred by Community designsbased on art. 19.1 of the Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001on Community designs, and endeavours to define the scope of protection of anunregistered design. The second part concerns the limitation of rights conferred byan unregistered community design, while the third provides analysis on the issueof the presumption of validity of unregistered community design based on art. 85.2(1) of regulation 6/2002, in which the author enumerates the proof that should beproduced by the rights holder. The final part of the article presents some remarks onthe procedural aspects of proceedings relating to infringement of an unregistereddesign. All aspects concerning the subject of the article are based on judgements ofthe Court of Justice of the European Union and the literature on the topic.