Spanish multinational Persan loses UK design protection for laundry capsule
By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( June 18, 2026, 14:51 GMT | Insight) -- Persan, an established Spanish manufacturer of hygiene products, has lost the UK design protection for its laundry detergent capsule after the UK Intellectual Property Office found that it had been preempted by an earlier Chinese version.Spanish home care and hygiene giant Persan has lost UK design protection for its three-chambered laundry detergent capsule after the UK Intellectual Property Office, or UKIPO, found that it bore a high degree of similarity to an earlier design by German company Henkel....
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