Geschmacksmuster

Under German law, the registered design (German: eingetragenes Design), formerly called Geschmacksmuster ("aesthetic model"),^{[1][better source needed]} is a form of intellectual property that extends industrial design rights over the visual design of objects that is not purely utilitarian. The term of a Geschmacksmuster is twenty-five years (§ 27 (2) GeschmMG), as it is for a community design.

See also

• Design patent
• Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt – German Patent and Trade Mark Office
• Directive 98/71/EC on the legal protection of designs – an EU Directive
• Gebrauchsmuster – German utility model
• Trade dress