NIPC Law

By Taner Yildirim ( The National Institute of Standards and Technology - NIST ) -  Public Domain ,  Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Melissa Clarke)  Boghossian v IOP Publishing Ltd .  [2025] EWHC 3317 (IPEC) (17 Dec 2025) This was an action for copyright infringement brought by  Ardemis Boghossian ("Prof Boghossian")  against  IOP Publishing Limited ("IOP"), the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics  and publisher of the journal Nanotechnology .  Prof Boghossian claimed joint ownership of the copyright in a paper which IOP published in Nanotechnology in the names of Dejan M Djokic ("Dr Djokic") and  Aranya Goswami ("Mr Goswami") on 23 Oct 2017.  IOP brought Part 20 proceedings against Dr. Djokic seeking an indemnity or contribution in case Prof Boghossian's claim succeeded. The Parties Prof Boghossian was a chemical engineer and research scientist. In 2015, she was an Assistant Profe...

Crying mask Melpomene and laughing mask Thalia Author Tim Green   Licence CC BY-SA 2.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels) Rinkoff v Baby Cow Productions Ltd [2025] EWHC 39 (IPEC) (17 Jan 2025) This was a claim for copyright infringement. The work in which copyright was alleged to subsist as an original dramatic work was the format of two series of comedy shows called "Shambles ". The individual who devised that format was the writer and comedian Joshua Rinkoff ("Mr Rinkoff") who performs under the name  Harry Deansway.   Mr Rinkoff alleged that Baby Cow Productions Ltd . ("Baby Cow") had copied his format to make a series called "Live at the Moth Club".  The action came on for trial before Recorder Amanda Michaels on 4 and 5 Nov 2024.  By her judgment of 17 Jan 2025, the recorder dismissed Mr Rinkoff's claim (see Rinkoff v Baby Cow Productions Ltd [2025] EWHC 39 (IP...

The Countryside of Gelderland Author Janneman Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported Source Wikipedia Gelderland Jane Lambert Court of Justice of the European Union ( K. Lenaerts, President, R. Silva de Lapuerta, Vice-President, J.-C. Bonichot, A. Arabadjiev, M. Vilaras (Rapporteur), E. Regan, T. von Danwitz and C. Toader, Presidents of Chamber, A. Rosas, E. Juhász, M. Ilešič, M. Safjan, C.G. Fernlund, C. Vajda and S. Rodin, Judges)    C-310/17 ,  Levola Hengelo BV v Smilde Foods BV  ECLI:EU:C:2018:899, [2018] EUECJ C-310/17, EU:C:2018:899 (13 Nov 2018) This is one of the most remarkable cases that I have ever read.   It is important because it greatly increases the range of creations in which copyright can subsist.   I first thought it was a bit of a joke because that is how it was presented in the press (see  Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court   13 Nov 2018 BBC website)....