NIPC Law

Author  Satoshi Nakamoto  Source  Wikimedia Jane Lambert Chancery Division  (Mr Justice Mellor)  Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright   [2024] EWHC 3315 (Ch) (19 Dec 2024) and  [2024] EWHC 3316 (Ch) (20 Dec 2024) This was an application by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance ("COPA") for the committal of Craig Steven Wright ("Dr Wright") for contempt of court.  COPA alleged that Dr Wright had breached various anti-suit and anti-threat injunctions that Mr Justice Mellor had granted on 16 July 2024 by issuing proceedings against BTC Core and SquareUP Europe Ltd.  Mr Justice Mellor heard the application on 18 Dec 2024 and delivered judgment on 19 Dec 2024 (see Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright [2024] EWHC 3315 (Ch)).  At para [136] of that judgment he found Dr Wright to be in contempt of court.  At paras [2] and [79] of  Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright (Re Sentencing)  [2024] EWHC 3316 (Ch) which he handed down on...

UK Supreme Court By Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52871829   Jane Lambert Supreme Court ( Lords Reed (President), Lloyd-Jones, Kitchin, Hamblin and Burrows)  SkyKick UK Ltd and another  v Sky Ltd and others (Rev1) [2024] UKSC 36 (13 Nov2024) This was an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in  Sky Ltd and others v Skykick, UK Ltd and another (Rev2) [2021] EWCA Civ 1121 (26 July 2021) which I discussed in The Appeal - Sky v Skykick   on 10 Sept 2021. It was heard by Lords Reed, Lloyd-Jones, Kitchin, Hamblin and Burrows on 28 and 29 June 2023. Judgment allowing the appeal in part was handed down on 13 Nov 2024 (see SkyKick UK Ltd and another v Sky Ltd and ot hers (Rev1) [2024] UKSC 36 (13 Nov 2024)).  While waiting for judgment to be delivered the parties settled their differences. The appellants applied with the respondents' agreement for leave to withdraw their appeal and the parties aske...