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Mio and konektra: originality and copying in furniture design

Decision date · 4 December 2025

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

Two references concerned copyright claims involving furniture and the test for infringement of applied art.

The decision

The EU court clarified how to assess original expression and its reproduction in a competing object.

Source

CJEU · joined cases C-580/23 and C-795/23

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