Cabinet Chaillot - Jurinea Action for Infringement Jurinea Form 1177 Parties to the case Parapluie (2 hippopotames assis côte à côte) (Filed design) Parapluie (2 hippopotames assis côte à côte) (Publication) versus Parapluie (2 hippopotames assis côte à côte) (Commercialized model) Parapluie (2 hippopotames assis côte à côte) (Catalogue) 06-10-98, CA de Paris (Appeal) Domain --- Issue of law Result Proceedings --- Admissibility of late-transmitted pieces Yes --- No Protection according to Berne's Convention --- Essential aesthetic characteristics (German law) Yes --- Design protectable by copyright Yes --- Industrial use (German law) Yes --- Ornemental design protectable by the design right Yes --- Possible cumulation of the design protection and the copyright protection Yes --- Proof brought of plurality in the invoked national law Yes Protection under the design right --- Proof of the banality of the drawing No --- Existence of a whole anteriority No Copyrights titularity --- Titularity presumption Yes --- Publication of a design for a legal entity Yes Counterfeiter responsability --- Specialist manufacturer could not ignore the design to reproduce Yes Comparaison of the designs --- Copy of the essential caracteristics Yes Design infringement Yes --- Servile reproduction Yes Civil liability --- Unfair competition Yes Enacting terms: Damages 30,489 Euros Order on the ground of Art 700 NCPC 4,573 Euros Dismiss of the appeal Non Set aside of the contested decision Yes Publication(s): PIBD 1998, Ref.: 661, III, 473

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