The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 23 June 2010 case file VI SA/Wa 505/10 held that as the informed user should be considered a person who orders from the manufacturer a set of advertising pads to promote his or her own business and to distribute such pads to places of their use. This is undoubtedly a model of an informed user, and so a hypothetical user who physically does non-exist, who uses the product continuously, so it is not the average consumer neither professional. From his or her point of view, the Polish Patent Office shall assess the overall impression on users of a given design and opposed designs. Nevertheless, it is the informed user who compares industrial designs. The scope of creative freedom in developing the design, is determined by the functional characteristics of the object and the earlier designs.

This judgment concerned the industrial design “Podstawka reklamowa świecąca Star light” (in English: flashing advertising pad Star light), Rp-11754. See also “Polish regulations on industrial designs” and “Polish case law on industrial designs“.

Categories: Art. 102 IPL | Art. 103 IPL | Art. 104 IPL | Art. 105 IPL | Art. 107 §3 APC | Art. 26 IPL | Art. 7 APC | Art. 77 APC | industrial designs | informed user | invalidation of a right in registration | novelty of an industrial design | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Administrative Proceedings Code | Voivodeship Administrative Court.