Furniture design protection for Denmark
LIFA coordinated evidence, legal-counsel support and production transfer after unauthorized copying of a Danish furniture design.
- The buyer
- A Copenhagen, Denmark furniture brand with a bestselling chair design.
- The product scope
- Designer chairs; molded plywood, signature design, 20,000 units per year.
What needed to change?
The brand discovered near-identical chairs sold by 3 competitors; the manufacturing factory had sold the molds and drawings without authorization.
How LIFA managed the work
We documented the IP infringement: identical dimensions and construction details.
We coordinated with legal counsel for cease-and-desist and claim action.
We recovered or destroyed the unauthorized molds.
We transferred production to 2 vetted factories under NDA and mold-ownership terms.
Unauthorized sales ceased; molds recovered; production transferred with exclusive mold ownership contracts; the design's market position was restored.
From our company project database, with the work, approvals and results shown together.
What this project shows
Tool ownership and control of drawings needed explicit agreement with the new factories. Specialist legal counsel handled the legal action in this project.
Client identities, supplier contacts and confidential commercial terms are withheld from this public company record.
