Welcome to the fifth edition of ICLG - Designs, published by Global Legal Group. This publication provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to designs laws and regulations around the world, and is also available at www.iclg.com.
This year, there is one expert analysis chapter titled "Lookalike products in the UK: a game of (copy)cat & mouse?". The question and answer chapters, which in this edition cover 19 jurisdictions, provide detailed answers to common questions raised by professionals dealing with designs laws and regulations. As always, this publication has been written by leading designs lawyers and industry specialists, for whose invaluable contributions the editors and publishers are extremely grateful. Global Legal Group would also like to extend special thanks to contributing editor Ewan Grist of Bird & Bird LLP for his leadership, support and expertise in bringing this project to fruition.
Ben Lawless Publisher, Global Legal Group
1Lookalike products in the UK: a game of (copy)cat &
mouse? Ewan Grist, Bird & Bird LLP
5 Brazil Alexander Rodrigues, Alexandre M. Altberg &
Saulo Calazans, magellan IP
13 Canada Jean-Charles Gregoire, Amrita V. Singh, Kevin
Shipley & Paul Horbal, Marks & Clerk
21 Chile Trinidad Rojas & Felipe Claro, Claro & Cia.
28 Czech Republic Dominik Bajger, Cermak a spol.
35 France Catherine Mateu, Armengaud Guerlain
43 Germany Alexandra Dellmeier, Freia Andrea Schreiber &
Elisabeth Sandmair, LexDellmeier Intellectual Property Law Firm
51 Ghana Abena Ntrakwah-Mensah, Alberta Kyeremeh, Courtney
Heather Awotwi & James McKeown Debrah, Ntrakwah & Co.
59 Greece Eleni Kokkini, PPT Legal
67 India Abhai Pandey & Swati Pathania, LexOrbis
76 Israel Ena Pugatsch, Rakefet Peled & Helena Kushmaro,
Reinhold Cohn Group
84 Japan Yoshikazu Iwase, Yuta Komatsu, Eriko Kinoshita
& Yuka Maeda, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
92 Mexico Juan Rodrigo Pimentel Esquivel & Jorge Mier y
Concha, Arochi & Lindner
99 Philippines Rogelio Nicandro & Juan Carlos Novero,
ROMULO
109 Spain Marina Gomez Calvo, Arochi & Lindner
122 Switzerland Anne-Virginie La Spada, BMG Avocats 122130 Taiwan
Clarice Chen, Simon Hsiao & Yih-Feng Chen, Sigma IPR
139 Ukraine Oleg Zhukhevych, Olga Kreshchenko & Olga
Danish, ADVANCE PARTNERS
150 United Kingdom Ewan Grist & Louise Sargeant, Bird
& Bird LLP
158 USA Christopher V. Carani, Dunstan H. Barnes, Sarine R.
Hagopian & William E. Danziger, McAndrews, Held & Malloy
