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United Kingdom · Copying & adaptation

Response Clothing: a woven wave pattern

Decision date · 29 January 2020

Context photograph: The Rolls Building, where the Business and Property Courts sit in London today.
Context photograph: The Rolls Building, where the Business and Property Courts sit in London today. Muhammad Karns · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

A clothing supplier alleged that a retailer commissioned fabric copying its woven wave design.

The decision

The court treated the fabric as a work of artistic craftsmanship and found infringement.

Source

IPEC · [2020] EWHC 148

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