Germany
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As an EU member state, Germany is also part of the Community trademark and Community design system, and applies harmonised domestic trademark and design law, as well as the partially harmonised law on unfair competition and copyright law. However, since the protection of non-registered trademark rights is not harmonised within the European Union, rights holders may assert trademark rights acquired through use in Germany, provided that the use has established the mark in the minds of the relevant public
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