Track on design: Recent Case Law from the CJEU/General Court on Design Intermediate
This webinar provides an overview of the judgments adopted by the CJEU/General Court on Design in 2023. Watch this webinar to stay updated on all the latest RCD-related case-law developments. Among the decisions analysed, the expert will highlight cases concerning: the visibility requirement (C-472/21 Monz Handelsgesellschaft International; T-617/21 Electrode to insert in a torch); functional...
Recent case-law in the field of designs Intermediate
This webinar provides an overview of the most relevant Judgments of the GC/CJEU and decisions of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal in 2021 concerning Community Designs
The Brompton bicycle CJEU decision – Where do functional shapes now stand in EU copyright law? Advanced
The famous Brompton bicycle can be folded up after use. The bike was originally protected by a patent. Following its expiry, the defendant (Chedech/Get2Get) embarked on selling a similar bike in Belgium. Brompton then sued for copyright infringement. This webinar comments on the CJEU’s decision of 11 June 2020 (Case C‑833/18, SI, Brompton Bicycle Ltd. v. Chedech / Get2Get). This decision expla...
Case law on Community designs Advanced
In this webinar we will cover the law applicable to design infringement, what things are infringing and non-infringing acts and what the defences to infringement are. Also, how to determine what is the design that you are enforcing, how to determine the accused (ingraining) design and how to compare the two. We will see how to handle a situation where both, the validity and the infringement, come ...
An empirical analysis of the design case law of the EU Member States Advanced
The presentation summarises the presenter’s recent research which empirically examines the substantive decisions on all types of design rights from the courts of the 28 Member States since the entry into force of the Design Directive and the Design Regulation, up to and including August 2017. The research uses descriptive and inferential statistics to analyse the presence of differences in the p...
Cofemel - how a pair of jeans and a T-shirt may have influenced the fate of the EU design system Advanced
In this webinar, the decision of the CJEU, issued on 12 September, in the Cofemel case (C-683/17) will be summarised and critiqued. The Court of Justice held that Member States could no longer apply a higher level of originality to works of applied art/designs. The same criterion applies to all copyright works, namely the author’s own intellectual creation. The webinar will include a discus...
Design Decisions of the GC and the CJEU Advanced
An overview of the most relevant design decisions of the EUIPO GC and the CJEU from the last years. Speakers: Gailé SAKALAITE-ORLOVSKIENE - EUIPO - Operations Department (OD) Elisabeth FINK - EUIPO - Boards of Appeal (BoA) Arnaud Folliard - EUIPO - International Cooperation and Legal Affairs Department Justas IVANAUSKAS - EUIPO - International Cooperation and Legal...
Design Decisions of the Boards of Appeal Advanced
An overview of the most relevant design decisions of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal from the last years. Speakers: Elisabeth FINK - EUIPO - Boards of Appeal (BoA) Arnaud Folliard - EUIPO - International Cooperation and Legal Affairs Department Andrej KRALIK - EUIPO- Boards of Appeal Justas IVANAUSKAS - EUIPO - International Cooperation and Legal Affairs Department