Intellectual property

27 June 2014

Issue: 7612 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court

Karen Millen Fashions Ltd v Dunnes Stores and another C-345/13 [2014] All ER (D) 156 (Jun)

Article 6 of Council Regulation (EC) 6/2002 should be interpreted as meaning that, in order for a design to be considered to have individual character, the overall impression which that design produced on the informed user had to be different from that produced on such a user not by a combination of features taken in isolation and drawn from a number of earlier designs, but by one or more earlier designs, taken individually.

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Intellectual property

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Maria Karaiskos KC, Church Court Chambers

Bevan Brittan—Bethan Gladwyn

Ionic Legal—Tania D’Souza Culora