The Supreme Court of the Can­ton of Berne (Switzer­land), on July 2, 2024 hand­ed down the long await­ed deci­sion in the pro­ceed­ings ini­ti­at­ed by 25 man­u­fac­tur­ers and deal­ers of hand­pans (“Claimants”) in Octo­ber 2020. The Court, in its thor­ough deci­sion of 95 pages, held that the HANG, in all its ver­sions, and as shown in the sketch below, is pro­tect­ed by copy­right under Swiss law, under Ger­man law and under Dutch law.

Appli­ca­tion for can­cel­la­tion of the HANG brand: PANArt will thwart this attack.

The Com­mer­cial Court of the Can­ton of Bern had sched­uled the main hear­ing for two days, and it indeed last­ed that long – unusu­al­ly long for a court hear­ing in Switzer­land. The court­room was filled to capacity.

Balu is the com­pre­hen­sive term for a sound body con­sist­ing of the instru­ments Balu Sei, Balu Sai, Balu Sui and Godo. The video shows the PANArt tuners play­ing the instruments. 

Last May the plain­tiffs hand­ed their reply to the court. We now have respond­ed to this reply. This clos­es the writ­ten pro­ce­dure, and the com­mer­cial court of the Can­ton of Bern (Switzer­land) is expect­ed to sum­mon the par­ties to the main hear­ing in the begin­ning of 2023. Thus, we hope for a final deci­sion regard­ing the copy­right pro­tec­tion of the HANG in 2023.

A Case Study on Man­ag­ing Cre­ativ­i­ty, Sep­tem­ber 2012

Author: Rupert Cocke
© Copy­right by the Author – All rights reserved
Pub­lished on www​.hang​blog​.org: Novem­ber 7^th, 2012Original lan­guage: English

„The Mir­ror Effect“
A Dis­ser­ta­tion writ­ten by Christo­pher Baron (M.A. Music Ther­a­py)
Uni­ver­si­ty West of Eng­land, Bris­tol 07/10/2020

In this dis­ser­ta­tion Christo­pher Baron, a formed music ther­a­pist, goes deep into the effects that music pro­duced with the PANArt Hang®-Family Instru­ments on musicians.

What is the issue?
An attempt­ed expla­na­tion.

By Felix Rohn­er, PANArt

The Hang®, cre­at­ed by Sabi­na Schär­er and Felix Rohn­er in 2000, and pro­duced and dis­trib­uted by PANArt Hang­bau AG, Bern, Switzer­land, is pro­tect­ed by copyright.

Why this is so, and what it means, we want to answer by means of ques­tions that are fre­quent­ly asked by sup­pli­ers of hand pans and oth­er peo­ple inter­est­ed in the topic.