Italian Supreme Court applies CJEU Cofemel decision to makeup store layout
A KIKO store A couple of years ago, The IPKat reported on the interesting decision of the Court of Appeal of inter alia , copyright protection of makeup producer and retailer KIKO 's store layout under Italian law. Milan in a case concerning, The ruling, which upheld the decision at first instance, confirmed that the layout of KIKO concept stores – notably the way in which the various elements used to furnish such stores are combined, coordinated and assembled – is eligible for protection under Article 2 No 5 of the Italian Copyright Act as as an architectural plan. It also found that defendant WYCON ’s stores had infringed copyright in it. Now, the Italian Supreme Court has confirmed the appropriateness of this conclusion [this court is not a court on the merits, and may only be seized on issues concerning the correct interpretation of the law] in a decision published earlier this week ( decision 780/2020 ). Of t...