The model law on intellectual property : the results of the GR UR research project

Tł. z jęz. niem.: M. Bobrzyński

The article presents the draft proposal for the comprehensive reform of the German law of intellectual property. The draft Code of Intellectual Property is a model law consisting of ten books that aims at an overall codification at a national level. The project, which was sponsored by the Deutsche Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GR UR), is an attempt to modernize the regulatory technique by furnishing general rules on both substantive and procedural issues, that are merged together with the rules on the specific intellectual property rights into a comprehensive code of intellectual property. The author provides for an introduction to the underlying goals of the project and for a brief description of the comprehensive general part contained in Book 1, procedural rules containedin Book 2, and the rules of the existing statutory provisions contained in Books 3-9. Finally, the author discusses the Books 10A and 10 B that contain description and proposals for possible further development of the German Act on Employees' Inventions towards an employees' creations law covering all types of protected achievements.