The IP-Team at Gassauer-Fleissner has contributed the Austrian Chapter on design rights in the International Comparative Legal Guide by glg. Our guide provides a concise overview of the registration and the enforcement of design rights in Austrian and can be accessed here. Design rights protect the visual or in some cases tactile elements of products that are not purely utilitarian. In praxis, their importance is sometimes overlooked and our guide aims at conveying their advantages and limitations.

We are pleased to have published this contribution in the International Comparative Legal Guide, which is a leading global platform for legal reference and analysis, hosting comprehensive comparative legal guides that cover law in more than 191 jurisdictions across 59 practice areas.

The authors contributing to our guide are Dr. Christian Gassauer-Fleissner, Dr. Dominik Göbel, Manuel Wegrostek and Paul Reiter.