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18 March 2016
Issue: 7691 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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PMS International Group plc v Magmatic Ltd (Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks intervening) [2016] UKSC 12, [2016] All ER (D) 84 (Mar)

The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal reversing the judge’s decision that the respondent’s “Kiddee Case” infringed the appellant’s Community design right, which had become the “Trunki”. The Court of Appeal had addressed the question of infringement on the correct basis in law and there were no grounds for questioning its decision.

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