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Designers Guild: a floral textile design

Decision date · 23 November 2000

Context photograph: Middlesex Guildhall, home of the UK Supreme Court, which assumed the House of Lords’ judicial role in 2009.
Context photograph: Middlesex Guildhall, home of the UK Supreme Court, which assumed the House of Lords’ judicial role in 2009. Tom Morris · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized

The dispute

A fabric designer alleged that another company copied expressive elements of a striped floral design.

The decision

The House of Lords restored the trial judgment and emphasized the qualitative importance of what was taken.

Source

House of Lords · [2000] UKHL 58

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