CJEU rules that functional shapes are eligible for copyright protection, in so far as they are original works

12th June 2020

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 sense clarified by the Court itself in earlier case law.

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Eleonora Rosati

I am an Of Counsel in the IP team, and work between Milan and London on copyright and trade mark issues. I am also a law academic and have authored hundreds of articles on IP issues and two monographs on EU copyright law.

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CJEU rules that functional shapes are eligible for copyright protection, in so far as they are original works

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