Flos putting us all through the Mill – NIPC Law

Posted October 22nd, 2014 in copyright, EC law, intellectual property, Italy, news by sally

‘In 1962 Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni designed a floor lamp with a marble base and a curved lead to a bowl shaped reflector. Those lamps, known as the Arco lamp and you can see a picture of one of those lamps in Achille Castiglioni’s studio in Quick History: The Arco Lamp in Apartment Therapy. Original Arco lamps retail for £1,373 but it is possible to buy a reproduction for a fraction of that price as the Prime Minister’s wife did recently (see “Samantha Cameron counts the cost of her repro lamp” 3 Oct 2011 The Guardian).’

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NIPC Law, 17th October 2014

Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk