On Tuesday 24 September (judgment in Case T-219/18), the General Court of the European Union dismissed the action brought by the Italian company Piaggio & Co against the 2010 decision of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to register as a Community design a scooter produced by the Chinese company Zhejiang Zhongneng Industry Group.
Piaggio had applied for the cancellation of that registration, alleging that the Chinese design was void of novelty in relation to the one of...