Legal Aspects on the Harmonization of Albanian Legislation for Industrial Design Protection

Abstract

Based on the analysis and interpretation of the provisions of the Albanian legislation, directives and regulations of the EU, we can say that Albania has succeeded to achieve a good protection of industrial designs, according to the criteria and standards of the EU. Admittedly, the process of integration serves for more interaction and better understanding of the community system, as well as it offers a chance to increase the level of governance, finding the right balance between efficacy and the need for democratic legitimacy. A unified legal regulation at a European level rather than a national one, became so indispensable to guarantee the proper functioning of the internal market, in relation to the products containing designs. This primary interest was accompanied by the one on the investments of European enterprises in the field of more efficient forms of final products compared to the one granted in the past by each state. Thus, the unified European law on designs and models, proposes a special protection technique and increases the value of the products form, as a competitive tool in the market.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n6p317