DIN ISO 16016:2017-08

The existence of document and product protection, as well as its extent, is primarily oriented towards fulfilling the requirements of industrial property rights and copyright law. In order to draw the attention of users to this legally provided protection, additional safeguards are recommended through the use of protection notices that forestall the improper use of documents and products. Normally, full protection is afforded only by appropriate contractual agreements between the involved parties. The protection notices specified in this International Standard serve to warn and explain. They are designed to facilitate the furnishing of proof and offer additional safeguards to authors and holders of commercial protection rights. This International Standard specifies the protection notices which serve to prevent the improper use of documents and products whose usage is restricted. With the benefit of a uniform text, protection notices draw attention to the existence of an industrial property right or copyright. Furthermore, they clearly show that the owner of the right claims legal protection to the fullest extent and, in addition to this they restrict the utilization of the documents or products concerned. The standard differs from DIN ISO 16016:2007-12 as follows: a) the German Design Patent Act was renamed Designgesetz from Geschmacksmustergesetz on 2014-01-01. This has been taken into account when using German terms and a note has been included in a national footnote; b) new Subclause 4.5 "Protection of topography of semiconductor product" has been included; c) new Subclause 4.6 "Registered trademark" has been included; d) national footnote with the full English text of the protection notice has been included in 5.1; e) corrections to the translations of the protection notice have been included in Annex A. This document has been prepared by ISO Subcommittee 1 "Basic conventions" of ISO/TC 10 with the participation of the German experts of Working Committee NA 152-06-01 AA "Dokumentationswesen" ("Documentation") at DIN Standards Committee Technical Fundamentals (NATG).