The Business Law Reports
[2025] Bus LR 2378
Court of Justice of the European Union
Lego A/S
v
Pozitív Energiaforrás Kft
(Case C-211/24)
EU:C:2025:648
2025 March 6; Sept 4
President of Chamber C Lycourgos, Judges S Rodin, N Piçarra, O Spineanu-Matei, N Fenger, Advocate General M Szpunar
Design— EU registered design— Infringement— Community design protecting Claimant’s design allowing connection of mutually interchangeable products within modular system — Claimant contending components in defendant’s modular system not producing on informed user different overall impression— Abilities of “informed user” when making assessment— Whether possessing technical knowledge similar to that of sectoral expert— Whether “overall impression” including user’s technical opinion as well as visual perception— Whether infringement of only relatively small number of pieces of modular system constituting “special reasons” for not imposing sanction —
Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, arts 8, 10, 89(1)