Database Right - 77m Ltd. v Ordnance Survey Ltd.
Author Ordnance Survey Licence OS OpernDaya Source Wikipedia Ordnance Surb=vet Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Birss) 77m Ltd v Ordnance Survey Ltd [2019] EWHC 3007 (Ch) (8 Nov 2019) Ordnance Survey Ltd . ("OS") is the national mapping service for the United Kingdom. Since the 18th century, it has published very accurate and detailed maps of the topography of the nation that are useful for all kinds of business as well as hikers, cyclists and other leisure users. More recently, OS has developed a product called AddressBase which matches 28 million Royal Mail postal address to unique property reference numbers. A startup company called 77m Ltd ("77") developed a similar product named Matrix using a variety of licensed or publicly available materials including some that OS had created. 77 contended that it had created Matrix without infringing any of OS's intellectual property rights ("IPR") but...