RCDs – use of dotted lines in representations

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In his capacity as regular blogger for The IPKat, Partner Darren Smyth has posted on the use of dotted lines in representations of designs. This follows his participation in the conference this week at OHIM in Alicante to celebrate 10 years of the EU Registered Design system.

The post reflects concern that the understanding of courts and litigators may be diverging from that of practitioners over the meaning of showing a feature as a dotted line. Read Darren’s post here.

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