NIPC Law

The Internet Messenger Author   Buky Schwartz   Licence CC BY-2,5   Source  Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Lady Justice Rose and Lord Justice Arnold)  Warner Music UK Ltd and others v TuneIn Inc ,    [2021] EWCA Civ 441 (26 March 2021) This was an appeal by Tunein Inc. against Mr Justice Birss judgment in Warner Music UK Ltd and others v TuneIn Inc [2019] EWHC 2923 (Ch) (1 Nov 2019) which I discussed in  Copyright - Warner Music UK Ltd and Others v TuneIn Inc.   4 Nov 2019.  The claimants, who between them, account for more than half of the market for digital sales of recorded music in the UK and about 43% globally, sued Tunein Ltd for copyright infringement. TuneIn does not collect, transmit or store any third party audio content but it does connect users to third party radio stations' streams and earns money from advertising and subscriptions.  Mr Justice Birss found that TuneIn h...

Audiencia Nacional, Madrid Author FDV   Licence  CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Wikipedia   Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Marcus Smith)  Top Optimized Technologies SL and another v Vodafone Group Services Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 46 (Pat) (14 Jan 2021) This was an application by Vodafone Group Services Limited, Vodafone Group plc and Vodafone Limited ("Vodafone") to stay, either on jurisdictional grounds or for case management reasons, proceedings that had been brought against them by Top Optimized Technologies SL and TOT Power Control SL ("TOT") for patent infringement and other causes of action.  TOT had also brought proceedings against Vodaphone and Huawei in Madrid which Vodafone had challenged with some success on the ground that several causes of action were subject to agreements conferring exclusive jurisdiction on the English courts.  The proceedings that Vodaphone sought to stay were referred to as "the second UK proceedings" and the pr...