15 May 1987
E AND B GIFTWARE INC. AND ANOTHER v. CHU SAU YEE ALAN AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- E AND B GIFTWARE INC. AND ANOTHER v. CHU SAU YEE ALAN AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA4598/1986
The cardboard prototype and plastic mock-ups are not 'artistic works' under s3(1) of the 1956 Act (not sculptures, engravings or works of artistic craftsmanship); the Plaintiffs own copyright in the technical and rendering drawings and the Defendants' product is a substantial reproduction of those drawings; the 1st Defendant copied and thus infringed the Plaintiffs' copyright and breached his contractual duty of non-disclosure; the 2nd Defendant is secondarily liable because the 1st Defendant's knowledge is attributable to it; UK design registration (Cap.44) does not protect the Defendants in…