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The Scope and Limits of Protection for Distinctive Signs against the Community Design : The Application and Implications of Art. 25 (1) (e) of the Community Designs Regulation
The Community system of design protection,¹ proved to be appealing for the Internal Market participants.² Its power of attraction owes largely to the fact that it grants a fast and cheap protection for a relatively long period of time. Fast, because the registered Community design does not undergo a substantive examination upon registration³ and the unregistered Community design does not require registration at all.⁴ Cheap, because due to the lack of examination and the online instruments available in the OHIM the fees covered by the applicant for a registered Community design are minimal.
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