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This is one of a series of courses dealing with Intellectual Property law and practice presented by Peter Groves, an IP lawyer with Westminster law firm Bircham Dyson Bell. In industry, Peter has held the positions of Legal Adviser to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and Head of Commercial Law at the Confederation of British Industry. Author of several law books and many articles for the legal, trade and national press, he has edited The Business Client Handbook since 1995.

This course looks at the Community design system. The advent of a Community design system, bearing a close family resemblance to the Community trade mark system, should mark another important step towards industrial designs managing to shake off their Cinderella image in the intellectual property world. What have previously been weak, often dubiously valid, rights now look a great deal stronger. Now that they are available throughout the EC for a single application, registered designs should come into their own.