H Gautzsch Großhandel GmbH & Co KG v Münchener Boulevard Möbel Joseph Duna GmbH – WLR Daily

Posted February 17th, 2014 in copyright, EC law, law reports by sally

H Gautzsch Großhandel GmbH & Co KG v Münchener Boulevard Möbel Joseph Duna GmbH (Case C‑479/12); [2014] WLR (D) 66

‘It was possible that an unregistered design could reasonably have become known in the normal course of business to the “circles specialised in the sector concerned” operating within the European Union, within the meaning of article 11(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, if images of the design were distributed to traders operating in that sector. However, it was possible that an unregistered design might not reasonably have become known in the normal course of business to the circles specialised in the sector concerned, operating within the European Union, even though it was disclosed to third parties without any explicit or implicit conditions of confidentiality, if it had been “made available”, within the meaning of article 7(1) of the Regulation, to only one undertaking in that sector or had been presented only in the showrooms of an undertaking outside the European Union.’

WLR Daily, 13th February 2014

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