Legal & Prof

Apple court case could pave the way for trademarked layouts

By Mark Owen17 October 2014

Mark Owen

If you can protect a perfume bottle against copycats, why not your store or even hotel layout? In the continual battle to differentiate commercial offerings, it has always been difficult to protect innovative layouts from imitation.

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