NIPC Law

Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert Chancery Division  (HH Judge Halliwell)  Shua Ltd v Camp and Furnace Ltd [2020] EWHC 687 (Ch) (24 March 2020) This was a trial of preliminary issues in a passing off and copyright infringement action that had been brought by Shua Limited  ("Shua") against one of its shareholders, Camp and Furnace Ltd.  ("Camp") and unfair prejudice proceedings that Camp has launched against Shua, its director and shareholder Joshua Burke ("Mr Burke") and his fellow shareholder Jonathan Lacey ("Mr Lacey"). The Passing off Claim Shua offers an entertainment called Bongo's Bingo ,  That appears from the above promotional video to be a combination of bingo and disco.  "Bingo" is described by Wikipedia as " a game of probability in which players mark off numbers on cards as the numbers are drawn randomly by a caller, the winner being the first person to mark off all their numbers."  Having played...

Junction of Fetter Lane and Rolls Building Author Basher Eyre Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 Generic Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr David Stone)  MEI Fields Designs Ltd v Saffron Cards and Gifts Ltd and another [2018] EWHC 1332 (IPEC) (6 June 2018) This was an action for the infringement of copyright with a counterclaim for a declaration of non-infringement.  The copyrights in question subsisted in artwork for greetings cards that had been created by Mel Fields ( "Mrs Fields" ). The  main issue in this case was over who owned those copyrights rather than whether they had been infringed. Indeed, Mr David Stone, the deputy judge who tried the action and counterclaim remarked at para [19] of his judgment:  "unusually for a copyright case, I was never actually taken to the allegedly infringing cards at issue in these proceedings." The Facts Mrs Fields worked as des...