NIPC Law

  Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Harrison (t/a Rayson Engineering) v Buchanan and anothe r [2025] EWHC 3283 (IPEC) (17 Dec 2025) This was a claim for breach of contract and copyright infringement.  The contract claim was based on the claimant's allegation that the defendants commissioned him to create drawings of components for an electrochemical water conditioner.  The copyright claim was based on the claimant's further allegation that copyright subsisted in those drawings, that he was the first owner of those copyrights and that the defendants had used the drawings without his licence.  The defendants denied that there was a binding agreement and argued that the drawings were not fit for purpose.  The action came on for trial before His Honour Judge Hacon on 21 Nov 2025.  By para [21] of his judgment in Harrison (t/a Rayson Engineering) v Buchanan and Another [2025] EWHC 3283 (IPEC), which he handed down on 17 ...

Licence  CC0 1.0.   Source   Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Intellectual Property List (ChD) (Sir Anthony Mann)  Easygroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd. and others [2022] EWHC 3327 (Ch) (21 Dec2022) This was an action for trade mark infringement and passing off  and a counterclaim for the revocation of some of the marks on which the claimant relied in respect of certain specified services.   The claimant, Easygroup Ltd ("Easygroup") , owned the marks listed in Appendix 1 to the judgment of Sir Anthony Mann in  Easygroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd and others [2022] EWHC 3327. Easygroup complained that Easy Live (Services) Ltd. ("ELA"), had infringed those marks by supplying computer software for use in auctions and conducting online auctions under the signs that appear in Appendix 2 to the judgment.  ELA sought to revoke  easyGroup ,  easyMoney ,  easyPropert y an...