THE (IN)APPLICABILITY OF INSTRUMENTS OF EXPIRY AND COMPULSORY LICENSE IN DESIGN
Design; Patent Design; Forfeiture; Abuse of Rights; Lack of Use; inaction of the industrial design registration holder
The industrial design is a kind of industrial and protected property, the aspects of an object that can be reproduced in an industrial three-dimensional way – both its print and the dimensional aspects and patterns applied. It is determined (the products of the protection of the system, avail the protection of industrial design registrations to obtain the exclusive reproduction of the applied object design) and avoid the total/standard reproduction applied to a part of the competition. In view of the guarantee of the industrial registration, as for the extinction, we present a system that presents legal guarantees. In this sense, this article aims to investigate the possibility of applying forfeiture and/or compulsory license in industrial design registrations, in view of the inaction of industrialization/commercialization of the object of the granted industrial design registration. And, it also intends to evaluate the possibility of applying the instrument of expiry and compulsory license due to the precariousness in the duty of use by the holder. Evita, which is a specific industrial design registration, is launched with the same launch time, as well as a valid product on the market. Faced with this tension, private interviews and research in the area of property of research professionals were organized, for the survey and analysis of the holder of the professional possibility of the research, for the survey of this professional possibility industrial design registration, applying expiry and/or compulsory license. Having been concluded by the deepening of the study and the results of the interviews that there is a pathology not by the non-application of possible designs to extinguish the instruments of industrial rights in the face of the action of the registration holder. Finally, it is suggested the definition of a regulatory framework for the application of expiry and/or compulsory license against industrial designs.