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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 03:17 PM EST |
They have "Community registered designs".
This paragraph from the courts findings seems clear enough with regard to the
difference between registered designs and patents.
"57. The point of design protection must be to reward and encourage good
product design by protecting the skill, creativity and labour of product
designers. This effort is different from the work of artists. The difference
between a work of art and a work of design is that design is concerned with both
form and function. However design law is not seeking to reward advances in
function. That is the sphere of patents. Function imposes constraints on a
designer's freedom which do not apply to an artist. Things which look the same
because they do the same thing are not examples of infringement of design
right."
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2012/1882.html[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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