NIPC Law

  Author  Ciencias Españolas   Licence  CC BY-SA 3.0   Source  Wikipedia Commons   Jane Lambert Patents Court (Michael Tappin KC sitting as a judge of the High Court) Hill v Touchlight Genetics Ltd and others [2025] EWHC 107 (Pat) (27 Jan 2025) I previously discussed this litigation in  Patents - Hill v Touchlight Genetics Ltd . on 11 July 2024.  I noted that it was an entitlement action, that is to say, a claim to ownership of certain patents and patent applications.   It was also an infringement claim in that the claimant alleged that the defendants had infringed the patents that she claimed. There was also a contingent counterclaim.  The action came before Michael Tappin KC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court between 25 and 28 Nov 2024 and 3 to 4 and 10 to 11 Dec 2024.   At para [331] of his judgment in  Hill v Touchlight Genetics Ltd and others   [2025] EWHC 107 (Pat), which he handed down...

Royal Courts of Justice Author Anthony Majanlathi   Licence CC BY 2.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Arnold, Nugee and Birss)  InterDigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others [2024] EWCA Civ 743 (12 July 2024) This was an appeal by the claimants, InterDigital Technology and others ("InterDigital") and a cross-appeal by the defendants, Lenovo Group Limited and others ("Lenovo") against the order of Mr Justice Mellor in InterDigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others [2023] EWHC 1578 (Pat) (27 June 2023). That order implemented his lordship's judgment in    InterDigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd (FRAND Judgment - Public Version) [2023] EWHC 539 (Pat) (16 March 2023) which I discussed in  Patents - Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd. and others   on 21 March 2023.  Mr Justice Mellor req...

Author Judicial Office UK Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Zacaroli) Parsons v Convatec Lt d [2023] EWHC 1535 (Pat) (26 June 2023) This was an application by an employer to strike out or summarily dismiss part of its employee's claim for compensation under s.40 of the Patents Act 1977.  S.7 (2) of the Patents Act 1977 states that a patent for an invention may be granted primarily to the inventor except where a rule of law or contract entitles someone else to claim the invention.  One such exception is provided by s.39  which entitles employers to claim their employees' inventions in certain circumstances.  Most employees who are expected to invent something in the course of their employment enjoy generous salaries and benefits but there are some inventions that are so valuable to the employer that it is just to reward the employee with something extra.  S.40 makes provision for such re...

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...