The cheese was produced in the program ground floorbroadcast by TV3, the regional television channel of Catalonia, where the ceramic artisan Joaquim Toribio complained that Inditex or, more specifically, Zara Home, I had plagiarized some designs.
In the programme, this Barcelona ceramicist accused the Galician company of having ‘shot’ the design of a domestic bread ovenmade in terracotta, which he had designed during the pandemic.
The oven in question, as defended by Toribio, has two patents, one of which is appealable with respect to this bread oven that Zara Home sells for 79.99 euros in its stores and that in the case of the Toribio ovens are sold for between 85 and 99 euros on the Mica website.
The operation of the oven is essentially simple: you just have to make the dough for the bread, place it in this two-piece terracotta oven, with a base and a lid, and bake the bread there until it is ready. Protected, according to Toribio, by a double patent, the reality is that you can only fight in favor of one.
In this sense, the Barcelona craftsman cannot sue for the first patentwhich is the design one, because although the Zara Home oven is very similar in shape and dimensions, it is not identical.
However, what Toribio explained in his speech in ground floor it had more to do with the very usefulness of the bread, related in a certain way to the design. Then, explained the utility patent which he defines as the differential fact.
In this way, Toribio considers violated by the specific use of bread in a way that allows you to make bread in a domestic oven without having to open the oven because it has some small holes that facilitate the creation of crust by expelling some steam.
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That is what Toribio defends, although also in ground floor They also remarked that they had copied on the Zara Home website the bread recipe that Toribio suggests with the same proportions and ingredientsin addition to bringing up other examples of complaints that Inditex has received from different designers for copying their work.
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