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Damages for Copyright Infringement - Charles and Ivy Ltd v Chelsea Supplies Ltd

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John Speed's Map of Lancashire (1610) Author:  John Speed, Copyright:  Public Domain, Source: Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court  (Her Honour Judge Melissa Clarke)  Charles and Ivy Ltd and another v Chelsea Supplies Ltd [2026] EWHC 2556 (IPEC) (9 Oct 2026) This was an inquiry as to damages for copyright infringement conducted by Her Honour Judge Melissa Clarke. The claimants were Charles and Ivy Top Ltd. ("CIT") and its wholly owned subsidiary, Charles and Ivy Ltd. ("CI").  The copyright works were 20 images of fencing elements and finishes, copies of which occupy the left-hand column of Annex A to the transcript of Judge Melissa Clarke's judgment in  Charles and Ivy Ltd and another v Chelsea Supplies Ltd   [2026] EWHC 2556 (IPEC) (9 Oct 2026). Those images had been made by Greg Robinson, a British citizen living in the UK.  He assigned the copyrights subsisting in those works to CIT on 7 July 2025....

Patents: Supreme Court upholds Court of Appeal and Sir Colin Birss on FRAND

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By Christine Smith - This file has been extracted from another file: Middlesex Guildhall.png, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82543212 Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lord Reed, Lord Hodge, Lady Black. Lord Briggs and Lord Sales)  Unwired Planet International Ltd and another v Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd and another [2020] UKSC 37 (26 August 2020) This was the judgment in the conjoined appeals from the decisions of the Court of Appeal in  Unwired Planet International Ltd and another v Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and another   [2018] RPC 20, [2018] EWCA Civ 2344 and  Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd v Conversant Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L [2019] RPC 6, [2019] EWCA Civ 38.  I have discussed the litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal in FRAND - A Recap   on   8 Aug 2020 and FRAND on 8 Oct 2017.  I shall discuss the Supreme Court's judgment on FRAND in a talk over Zoo...