WIPO's SCT (Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications) has turned it's attention in the last few meetings to looking at design law. It carried out a survey of its members on a huge range of issues (see the questionnaires Part I and Part II), and the Secretariat has produced a commentary on the responses (here) and a useful summary of the results (here). As the summary says this is not meant to be a definitive statement of law and practice.
The documents are provided in English, French and Spanish.
The next meeting of the SCT is in June and from the recently released agenda there is going to be a discussion on "Possible Areas of Convergence in Industrial Design Law and Practice". Given time and political will, this may lead to a DLT, to match the existing PLT and TLT.
Watch this space ....
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