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February 18, 2022
Copying the aesthetics of your product can have disastrous repercussions if it is combined with poor or even faulty technology that is not immediately perceptible to the consumer. The industrial property title of “Design” makes it possible to protect the appearance of a product. Sometimes neglected by companies, even though they are aware of the protection of inventions by patents or names by trademarks, this protection is nevertheless essential since the aesthetics of your product is often decisive for the consumer and requires financial and human investments. Acquiring a monopoly on the aesthetics of your product requires reflection in parallel […]
March 3, 2022
The dispute between car manufacturers Polestar and Citroën since 2018 continues. As a reminder, the company Polestar, a car manufacturer based in Sweden and Volvo’s in-house tuner, filed two European Union trademarks in 2017, to designate vehicles in class 12, consisting of two chevrons facing each other to form a star: Citroën sued Polestar before the Judicial Court of Paris for infringement of its “double-chevron” trademarks, infringement of its reputed trademarks and, alternatively, unfair competition and parasitism. On December 14, the Paris Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of the Judicial Court that the disputed Polestar signs infringe on the […]
March 31, 2022
The announcement by Éditions Dupuis of a new Gaston Lagaffe album drawn by the Canadian author Marc Delaf, to be published in October 2022, was a bombshell at the Angoulême International Comics Festival and did not fail to move fans of the character created by Franquin in 1957, divided between nostalgia and dilemma about the sacredness of the character and the work. But do Éditions Dupuis have the right to revive Gaston Lagaffe for new adventures when his author and creator Franquin disappeared in 1997? His work is obviously protected by copyright and its exploitation is therefore controlled. If Éditions […]
April 15, 2022
The famous luxury house Louis Vuitton was recently ordered by the Paris Court of Appeal to pay 700,000 euros in damages to the designer of the “LV tournant” lock for infringement of her copyright. The case was between the independent designer Jocelyne Imbert and Louis Vuitton Malletier (LVM), for whom she had created the “LV tournant” lock in 1988. In return for the transfer of rights to the lock for city, travel and leisure bags, the company undertook to pay the designer a fixed fee. Under the terms of successive contracts between the parties, it was also stipulated that […]