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Supreme Court Judgment 7957/2568 — Pirelli lightning tire-tread
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- Nombre
- Supreme Court Judgment 7957/2568 — Pirelli lightning tire-tread
- Cita
- ฎีกา 7957/2568; Supreme Court docket ทก.(ป)19/2567
- Tribunal
- Supreme Court of Thailand, Intellectual Property division
- Instancia
- última instancia
- Fechas
- year
- 2025
- Estado
- year-only-reporter
- Resultado
- Supreme Court affirmed dismissal of copyright and trade-name claims; Supreme Court costs borne as ordered.
- Resumen
- The minor differences from a natural/common lightning motif and function-driven arrangement were insufficient to make the tread a protected creative work; the trade-name claim also failed.
- Antecedentes
- A roughly ten-person research-and-development team designed a motorcycle-tire lightning tread, adjusting placement, angles and sizes chiefly for performance and wear while also claiming speed/power symbolism and brand identity. Defendants sold a similar tread and used a challenged trade name.
- Historia procesal
- The Pirelli claim was filed/amended on 2019-08-23. The Central IP and International Trade Court granted partial relief. The Court of Appeal for Specialized Cases reversed and dismissed. The Supreme Court permitted appeal and affirmed dismissal.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether the lightning-tread drawing/arrangement was a self-originated protected work or an ordinary/functional product design, and whether the trade name was confusing.
- Criterio
- The minor differences from a natural/common lightning motif and function-driven arrangement were insufficient to make the tread a protected creative work; the trade-name claim also failed.
- Fundamento decisivo
- A claimed object must embody self-originated expression in a protected category; ordinary or predominantly function-driven arrangement is not automatically copyrightable despite team effort or commercial design intent.
- Límites
- The case mixed copyright, industrial-design functionality and trade-name issues. It does not categorically bar useful works, adopt a human-effort quantum or decide AI authorship; it asks what protected expression the evidence shows.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Most recent located final Supreme Court statement of originality; high national guiding weight, with AI application unresolved. Integración/votación: Three-judge panel: Peeti Nathaphakti, Chaiyos Worananthasiri and Narong Klanwarin (Thai transliteration); individual votes/separate opinions not published.
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- Referencia
- Supreme Court Judgment 7957/2568 — Pirelli lightning tire-tread
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- Tipo
- current national originality/functionality analogue; not an AI case
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