Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 28 May 1998.
1. This is an unusual case because it involves in the main toilet brushes. One of the criteria for the protection of people's work is the originality of design and the artistic work which goes into that particular design and I confess before coming into this case, I have never realized that artistic work was involved in toilet brushes. I have thought, and I am sure most people do think, that a toilet brush is just an ordinary toilet brush, however, Miss Chow has very clearly set out in her openi