Cartier and Tiffany & Co. trade secret dispute and Cattelan sued by Druet.
European IP Helpdesk published a blog post about the legal dispute facing Cartier and Tiffany & Co., the two luxury jewellers. In a nutshell, Cartier sued Tiffany for trade secrets misappropriation, after hiring one former Cartier employee that allegedly transferred files that included very sensitive and valuable information concerning the new high-jewellery collection that Cartier was about to launch, hence considered as a trade secret by this company.
Now the French sculptor Daniel Druet started an intellectual property dispute. Daniel Druet sued the Italian artist - Maurizio Cattelan - before the Paris Court specialised in IP, claiming 4.5 million euros in compensation
The Paris Court will now have to take a decision on whether a sculptor that is commissioned by an artist to perform a certain work should be recognised, or if the artist should be the only one recognised as the author, since without the artist’s inventive process, the sculpture would not exist, whereas another manufacturer could have performed the artist’s idea.
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Author: European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency