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1 March 2024PatentsSarah Speight

‘Rightsholders be aware’: Design firm loses key priority patent case in EU

EUIPO wins appeal to reverse General Court decision | Court of Justice ‘concludes there are no loopholes’ in community design regulation | ‘Protect designs from the beginning’, say lawyers. 

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