utility model

Some countries exclude particular subject matter from utility model protection.

The table below is a list of countries having utility model protection under various names as at March 2008.

"The utility model suggests that it is not about empowerment."

The range of protection is broader than the German utility model.

Most countries having utility model laws require that the invention be new.

Sweden does not have legislation on the protection of utility models.

Since 2005, the patent and utility model applications nearly doubled.

A utility model is an intellectual property right to protect inventions.

In Germany a utility model is considered to be new if it does not form part of the state of the art.

I kept turning to this so-called public utility model.

For example, methods, plants and animals are normally barred from utility model protection.

In comparison with patent rights, the protection of utility models has a weaker legal position.

Utility models are an example of such rights.

Individually optimal contribution rates, as defined by the standard utility model, are close to 0 percent.

Having initially bet wrong, Japanese car makers are now developing many more sport utility models.

In comparison to patents, utility models are cheaper and less research intensive.

These rights are different from those provided by the more commonly considered patent rights under the utility model.

Only registration is sufficient to obtain a utility model.

A public utility model is designed to be funded through the collection of user fees and not reliance on tax money.

One third were patents and two thirds were utility models.

Handling not only patent and utility model but also design and trademark.

More than 500 patents and utility models (Gebrauchsmuster) have been registered.

Then a carpet sailed in, one of the large utility models, supporting four rough-looking men.

Utility models can be registered, granted without any prior search and offer a lower level of legal protection than patents.

A Swedish government report on the protection of utility models was withdrawn through lack of interest.