Intellectual Property Magazine
Raging bull
The work of a bullfighter cannot be protected by copyright as a matador’s routine is improvised. Leonardo Mesones explores
Leonardo Mesones- UNGRIA Patentes y Marcas SA
TheSpanish Supreme Court turned down an appeal against the verdict of theProvincial Court of Badajoz (Section 2), of 22 January
2018, which in turn hadconfirmed on appeal the verdict handed down by the Commercial Court No 1 ofBadajoz, of 12 April 2017,
both opposingto admit the inscription in the intellectual property registry of the artisticwork ‘Bullfight of Two-eared slaughter
with tail request to the bull ‘Curioso’nº 94, weighing 539 kgs, born in 2010 Garcigrande livestock. San Juan deBadajoz Fair,
June 22, 2014.’