The court considered the protection of drawings of parts of a boat. The court distinguished between designs capable of registration which were subject to s 10, and designs which were not registrable (chiefly because they were functional) and so bore full-term artistic copyright even in respect of industrial products. Citations: [1964] RPC 160, [1965] Ch … Continue reading Dorling v Honnor Marine Ltd: CA 1964

Judging Copying in Industrial Drawings The plaintiff alleged breach of copyright by the defendants in copying drawings of plastic drawers. Held: The use, by an alleged copyist of odd or unusual detail found in the original is often a tell-tale of copying.Lord Wilberforce said that the beginning of the necessary proof of copying normally lies … Continue reading LB (Plastics) Ltd v Swish Products Ltd: 1979

Copyright is intended to protect one person against his work being copied by another. One person must not be permitted to appropriate the result of another’s labour; it is for the plaintiff to establish and prove as a matter of fact that copying has . .