BUSINESS DAY TV: Woolworths faces plagiarism claim
CARL van Rooyen is partner at Spoor & Fisher intellectual property law firm and Clive Simpkins is a marketing and communications strategist.Business Day TV: This week designer Euodia Roets accused retail chain Woolworths of stealing her designs of a hummingbird print for a cushion — that’s after she had presented the idea to them before later being turned down. Woolworths has denied the accusation saying the offending cushion was commissioned months before that meeting. To take a look at the legal and reputational issues around these claims, we’re joined in studio by Carl van Rooyen, he is partner at Spoor & Fisher, also marketing and communications strategist Clive Simpkins.Clive, Woolworths has denied stealing Ms Roets idea, but the public often comes out in favour of the underdog. Is the damage done?Clive Simpkins: I heard Ian Moir, the Woolworths CEO, speaking from Melbourne on radio and he was very transparent and very open and honest in the way he discussed the whole issue, an...
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