Between the Law of Designs and Patents: Wearable Technology
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https://doi.org/10.35487/rius.v12i41.2018.430Keywords:
Industrial designs, unregistered designs, patents, copyrights, wearable technology, fashion.Abstract
Intellectual Property is one of the most important assets that companies have. Although traditionally it has existed a clear difference between industrial designs and patents, due to the very nature of the design, there was a need to raise various possibilities to safeguard around this technological figure, whose development could lead us to question the current mechanisms of protection. Wearable technology is booming and involves an interaction of two sectors that are still a matter of analysis, discussion and lack of consensus: fashion and technology. We believe that the denaturalization of industrial design could occur in the face of the imminent possibility of acceptance of an omission of the form with a function that, added to the lack of clarity that exists regarding the protection of unregistered designs and the lack of regulations surrounding the design of wearable technology, that would lead us to a forced analysis on the relevance of application of current legal mechanisms in the technological field and the need to have regulations in line with existing technological innovations.Downloads
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