Beyond BERLUTI strict design protection? On February 14, 2007, the First Degree Court of Paris, granted 90.000 euros to BERLUTTI as an award of costs for design infringement. Under French practice granting author’s right protection to original designs, the judge further allowed 30.000 euros for author’s right infringement. Lastly, The Court condemned to 75.000 euros …
The cour de Cassation decided a case on February 20, 2007 which confirms a line of cases issued since 2006 concerning the proof of the originality of a creation. The company, Nocan, is the owner of a model and claims the protection of an old article 511-3 of the CPI against the company, Minitec. In …
In its decision opposing Tod’s SpA and Heyraud companies, the French Court of First Instance applied the decision of the ECJ dated June 30, 2005 ruling that “the right of an author to claim in a Member State the copyright protection afforded by the law of that State may not be subject to a distinguishing …
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On December 18, 2006,the European Union Council accepted the accession of the European Community to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement relating to International design registrations and established the Regulation for making this accession effective. This acceptance is a first step in the process to link Community designs (in existence since April 1, 2003, …
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