International Trademark Association Adopts Guidelines for Examination of Industrial Designs
国际商标协会采纳工业设计审查准则
时间：2018年11月11日
消息源：AG-IP News
NEW YORK - The International Trademark Association (INTA) Board of Directors recently announced that it approved a resolution adopting general guidelines on a range of issues related to the examination of applications for industrial designs. According to INTA, the Guidelines for Examination of Industrial Designs are intended to serve as a reference document for Industrial Property Offices and are meant to reflect various international systems in an effort to harmonize design law practice.
纽约-国际商标协会（INTA）董事会最近宣布，它批准了一项决议，通过一般指导方针，涉及工业设计申请的审查一系列问题。根据INTA的说法，《工业设计审查指南》旨在作为工业产权办公室的参考文件，并反映各种国际制度，努力协调设计法实践。
“These new guidelines will allow INTA to comment on the administration of designs by Industrial Property Offices and to assist Offices to set up and implement their practices and procedures,” said INTA President Tish Berard. “INTA has been focusing on design rights themselves, independent of their impact on trademark law and practice. The examination guidelines are instrumental for the Association to continue advocating for the protection of this intellectual property right.”
“这些新的指导方针将允许INTA对工业地产办公室的设计管理发表评论，并协助办公室建立和实施他们的做法和程序，”INTA主席Tish Berard说。INTA一直专注于设计权本身，独立于它们对商标法和实践的影响。审查指南有助于协会继续倡导保护这种知识产权。”
The guidelines are divided into sections, including filings, requirements, and elements of design applications, the examination procedure, and post-registration acts.
指南分为几个部分，包括申请、要求、设计申请的要素、审查程序和注册后行为。
The Designs Committee’s Design Law and Practice Subcommittee drafted the guidelines, building on the work carried out by the Committee during the previous term. Subcommittee Member Michael Hawkins, of Noerr Alicante IP, S.L, Alicante, Spain, presented them to the Board for approval at its November 2018 meeting. In drafting the guidelines, subcommittee members researched and reviewed global trends in design examination, and incorporated best practices and input based on the expertise of INTA’s members.
设计委员会的设计法与实践小组委员会在前一任期内委员会工作的基础上起草了指导方针。西班牙阿利坎特诺埃尔阿利坎特知识产权公司的小组委员会成员迈克尔·霍金斯在2018年11月的会议上向董事会提交了这些文件以供批准。在起草指南时，小组委员会成员研究和审查了设计审查的全球趋势，并根据INTA成员的专门知识纳入了最佳做法和投入。
“Fostering harmonization and convergence of practices is at the heart of INTA’s mission. Written in a jurisdictional neutral way, the Guidelines for Examination of Industrial Designs will work as a tool in the implementation of that harmonization goal, allowing the Association to continue contributing to a more consistent and certain legal environment,” said Robert Katz, of Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Washington D.C., and Chair of the Designs Committee.
“促进实践的协调与融合是INTA使命的核心。《工业设计审查指南》以中立的司法管辖方式编写，将作为实现这一协调目标的工具，使协会能够继续为更加一致和确定的法律环境作出贡献。设计委员会。
In 2016, INTA added design rights to its mission to support trademarks and related intellectual property, and established the Designs Committee to develop INTA’s design rights policy.
2016年，INTA在其支持商标和相关知识产权的任务中增加了设计权，并设立了设计委员会来制定INTA的设计权政策。
In November 2017, the INTA Board approved a resolution to adopt the Model Design Law Guidelines which provide a set of standards for design laws to enable the Association to comment on proposals by jurisdictions looking to implement a design law for the first time or to amend existing design laws. The Designs Committee and the Association have used the Model Design Law Guidelines in responding to a number of consultations relating to design laws worldwide.
2017年11月，国际设计协会理事会批准了一项决议，通过了《设计法范本指南》，该指南为设计法提供了一套标准，使协会能够对寻求首次实施设计法或修改现有设计法的法域的建议进行评论。设计委员会和协会已经使用示范设计法准则来回应有关全世界设计法的若干协商。
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s annual World Intellectual Property Indicators report released this month, in 2017, an estimated 945,100 industrial design applications containing 1.24 million designs were filed worldwide, and the total number of industrial design regulations in force worldwide grew by five percent to 3.75 million.
根据世界知识产权组织本月发布的年度世界知识产权指标报告，在2017年，全世界大约有945,100份工业设计申请被提交，其中包括124万个设计，全球现行的工业设计条例总数增长了5%，达到了375万个
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