NIPC Law

Author Natural Earth Data Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported Source Wikipedia China Jane Lambert There are almost two and a half times as many internet users in China as there are citizens of the USA and some of the biggest e-commerce companies on earth are located in that country. These include  Alibaba  in  Hangzhou ,  Baidu  in Beijing and  Tencent  in Guangzhou. A lot of disputes arise anywhere in e-commerce between suppliers and their customers. internet service providers and their subscribers and between different internet users, In China, they can be referred to three specialist internet courts based respectively in Hangzhou, Beijing and Guangzhou. The first of those courts was established in Hangzhou which has an  English language website . According to that website, the court resolves contract disputes arising from online shopping, product liability disputes arising from online s...

Author  Pumbaa80 Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported Source Wikipedia: Portal Association Football  Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Nugee)  Davies v Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (1986) Ltd [2019] EWHC 1252 (Ch) (15 May 2019) This was a claim for infringement of copyright .  The football club, Wolverhampton Wanderers , known as Wolves, has a stylized wolf's head as a logo.  It can be seen at the centre of the menu bar of the club's website and in lots of photos. The club has used that logo on players' shirts, signage, programmes, business stationery and so on ever since 1979.  In the early 1960s when the claimant was at secondary school he drew stylized animal heads including that of a wolf which bore a considerable resemblance to the club's logo. In this action, he claimed that copyright subsists in his drawings as original artistic works and that Wolves had infringed his copyright by...

Indian Subcontinent Author US Government Licence Reproduced licensed by the US Government Source Wikipedia Indian Subcontinent Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels)  Asian Business Publications Ltd v British Asian Achievers Awards Ltd and Anothe r [2019] EWHC 1094 (IPEC) (2 May 2019) This was an action for passing off.   The claimant ran an event called the Asian Achievers Awards. The defendants ran a similar event called the British Asian Achievers Awards. These were both charity dinners held in top class West End hotels at which prominent individuals of subcontinental heritage were presented with certificates. The Issues The following issues were identified at the case management conference: "1) Whether the Claimant has acquired goodwill in the UK associated with the name or mark Asian Achievers Awards. 2) Whether the Defendants have (by using and/or threatening to use, the name or mark...

Vinyl Record Author Evan-Amos Licence Dedicated to the public by the author Source Phonograph Record Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon)   FBT Productions, LLC v Let Them Eat Vinyl Distribution Ltd and another [2019] EWHC 829 (IPEC) This was a claim for infringement of copyright  in the sound recording of an album called Infinite by Marshall Bruce Mathers III who is better known as Eminem . The claimant, a Detroit record company, alleged that the first defendant had made vinyl copies of Infinite which it supplied to the second defendant for resale to the public. Neither defendant denied those acts but they challenged the claimant's claim to copyright and the second defendant denied that it knew or had reason to believe that the items that it sold were infringing copies. The Issues The action came on for trial before His Honour Judge Hacon.  At paragraph [5] of his judgment, he identified three issues in dis...