26 November 2019
Protecting your shop interior: what are the options?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/protecting-your-shop-interior

An original look can be a great selling point for your store as well as an easy way for customers to recognize your brand without even looking at the name. Yet how do you keep copycats from running away with your ...

15 March 2018
The CJEU DOCERAM case: when is a product feature solely dictated by its technical functionality such that it cannot be protected as a Community Design?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/uk/cjeu-doceram-case

21 September 2016
Using design rights to protect logos
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2016/global/using-design-rights-to-protect-logos

26 November 2020
International Comparative Legal Guide to: Designs 2021 - New title released!
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/international-comparative-legal-guide-to-designs-2021

The ICLG has published it's first designs edition, a practical cross-border insight into designs law and we've contributed two chapters.

07 October 2019
Copyright: infringement of artistic works and fixation
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/copyright-infringement-of-artistic-works-and-fixation

The High Court has held that copyright in two artistic works, including a design debossed in foundation powder palettes and a design decorating the lid of a package containing makeup powders, was infringed by ...

18 January 2021
Brexit and your designs
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2016/uk/brexit-and-design-implications

19 September 2016
EU: Mere failure to register a licence shall not prevent the licensee from taking enforcement action against infringers
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2016/global/eu-mere-failure-to-register-a-licence-shall-not-prevent-the-licensee-from-taking-enforcement-action

12 June 2020
CJEU rules that functional shapes are eligible for copyright protection, in so far as they are original works
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/cjeu-rules-that-functional-shapes-are-eligible-for-copyright-protection-in-so-far

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued its judgment in Brompton Bicycle, C-833/18, ruling that copyright protection is available to functional shapes, subject to them being original works in the ...

16 December 2020
A Case in ‘Point’: Rothy’s succeeds in perhaps the UK's final Community design case
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/a-case-in-point-rothys-succeeds-in-perhaps-the-uks-final-community-design-case

Rothy’s, the popular shoe company from California, has today prevailed over Austrian company Giesswein — in what might be the UK’s final ruling on EU design rights.

12 May 2020
The High Court grants PMI a Brexit-proof final injunction for EU design
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/the-high-court-grants-pmi-a-brexit-proof-final-injunction-for-eu-design

As previously reported in October 2018, Philip Morris International (PMI) successfully obtained a pan-EU interim injunction on the basis of a registered Community design against a Chinese manufacturer, which was ...