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Flos: copyright and the Arco lamp

Decision date · 27 January 2011

Context photograph: Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Context photograph: Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg. FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

Flos challenged the sale of a competing lamp based on the Arco design.

The decision

The EU court held that national rules could not categorically exclude qualifying previously registered designs from copyright protection.

Source

CJEU · C-168/09

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