The Voivodeship Administrative Court (VAC) in Warsaw in a judgment of 11 December 2008, case file VI SA/Wa 1827/08, ruled that the protection of an industrial design may only apply to the appearance of an object – its external appearance, not to its internal structure. The cassation compliant bought before the Supreme Administrative Court was rejected in a decision of 16 December 2009, case file II GSK 238/09.

This judgment concerned the industrial design “Zadaszenie drzwi” (in English: door canopy), Rp-9201.

See also my post entitled “Polish case law on industrial designs“.

Categories: Art. 102 IPL | Art. 103 IPL | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Patent Office | Polish courts | Polish law | Voivodeship Administrative Court | appearance of the whole or a part of a product | industrial designs.