Proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive approximating the legal arrangements for the protection of inventions by utility model

As part of this campaign, ICC has supported all efforts to harmonize national intellectual property laws because such harmonization is beneficial to world business.

ICC believes that the harmonized utility model system proposed in the draft Directive does not provide the necessary fair balance between the innovator, on the one hand, and third parties on the other. The system as at present proposed is not therefore in the interests of the world business community. However, if the system were modified to increase the entry threshold for obtaining the right and/or reducing the potency of the right once obtained, ICC might be able to support a system so modified.