NEW IP RULES WILL BENEFIT CLOTHING AND FASHION INDUSTRY, BUT MORE IS NEEDED, SAYS EU EXPERT
October 22nd, 2023
The European Union (EU)’s proposed new rules to protect industrial design (1) will be an essential aid to the EU fashion and clothing manufacturing industry, European Fashion Council (EFC) president Nadya Valeva has told Just Style, while protecting fashion and clothing business workers from intellectual property (IP) infringements.
A long-awaited revised EU designs legislation package – proposed in April and still under discussion - concerns the EU’s outdated 1998 directive on the legal protection of designs (2) and another old law, a 2002 regulation on ...
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