Cofemel & Cumulation
Should each object (whether it is a book or a pair of jeans) be only protectable by a single intellectual property right or is cumulative protection legitimate? In this guest post, Alicia Ogborn examines this complicated question. Cumulative protection There has long been tension and debates surrounding the cumulative protection of designs with copyrights in terms of conditions which need to be met. Previous decisions by CJEU (e.g. Flos, Infopaq) ruled that Member States were