The architect Marcel Breuer probably never thought one of his seating designs would prompt a legal battle. But when furniture manufacturer Knoll spotted that a German company, Tecta, had, since 1982, been making a tubular steel stool – more precisely the B9 that Breuer designed in 1925 for the Bauhaus architecture school canteen – it took its case to a court, which eventually ruled that Tecta should hand over all the profits it had made from its version.
或许建筑设计师马歇·布劳耶(Marcel Breuer)不会想到,他的座椅设计会引发一场法律争端。但是,当家具制造商Knoll发现,德国公司Tecta自1982年以来,就一直在制造一款钢管高脚凳,几乎完全抄袭布劳耶1925年为包豪斯建筑学院(Bauhaus architecture school)餐厅设计的B9创意,于是Knoll将Tecta告上法院。法院最终裁定,Tecta应将其从该款产品获得的全部利润交出来。