About certain issues of legal protection of the achievements in the field of design under the copyright and patent law
The article discusses various approaches of researchers in understanding the legal nature of industrial design, the differences between industrial designs and objects protected by copyright, the conditions of patentability of industrial designs, the features of protection of registered and unregistered industrial designs in the European Union. It is specified the features of the development of patent form of protection in the field of design in terms of its simplicity, as well as expanded features, indicating the approaching of patent form of protection of advances in design to the copyright form. In addition, the article sets out possible options of development of the patent form of protection in the field of design on the territory of Eurasia. Undergraduates, law students can use the material in the preparation of reports, article writing, term papers and dissertations.