Garment Designs

<p>The Ninth Circuit <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/garmentdesigns.pdf">reversed</a></strong> a finding that H&M infringed on Unicolors’ copyright to a design for use on garments, finding the lower court must determine whether the “known inaccuracies” contained in Uncicolors’ copyright registration application, if known to the Register of Copyrights, “would have caused it to refuse registration.”</p>

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit reversed a finding that H&M infringed on Unicolors’ copyright to a design for use on garments, finding the lower court must determine whether the “known inaccuracies” contained in Uncicolors’ copyright registration application, if known to the Register of Copyrights, “would have caused it to refuse registration.”

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