tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post5557875307001338785..comments2024-03-28T08:10:18.991+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Letter from Japan 3: Copyright and industrial design: trapped in the Tripp Trapp ...Verónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-54237374684364476762015-08-31T17:05:38.519+01:002015-08-31T17:05:38.519+01:00"However Germany has a very high threshold wh..."However Germany has a very high threshold which excludes most designs from copyright protection": since the "birthday train" decision of the BGH (http://ipkitten.blogspot.ch/2013/11/bgh-abandons-distinction-between-works.html), that is no longer the case (it is worth keeping in mind, though, that despite plaintiff's victory before the BGH in the "birthday train" decision, the train was ultimately judged not to be a work in the sense of copyright law by the OLG Schleswig-Holstein, http://openjur.de/u/728647.html).Mark Schweizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04460433294632554129noreply@blogger.com