NIPC Law

Author  Basher  Eyre  Licence  CC BY-SA 2.0   Source  Wikimedia Commons   Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Melissa Clarke) PSN Recruitments Ltd  v Ludley and another [2023] EWHC 3153 (IPEC) (8 Dec 2023) This was a claim by PSN Recruitment Ltd (trading as Cosmopolitan Recruitment ("Cosmopolitan") against its former employee, Graeme Ludley ("Mr Ludley").   Mr Ludley had emailed to himself particulars of Cosmopolitan's clients. set up a Greenscape Specialist Recruitment Ltd ("Greenscape") as a competing business and told Cosmopolitan's clients that he was still working for the same employer but from a different location and under a different corporate name.  Cosmopolitan sued Mr Ludley and the company for breach of confidence and passing off  in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ("IPEC") . Their defence to the breach of confidence claim was that the information was easily obtainable from trade publicatio...

Jane Lambert Chancery Division (HH Judge Hacon)  Sprint Electric Ltd v Buyer's Dream Ltd and Another [2020] EWHC 2004 (Ch) (24 July 2020) Although this case was listed in Business List it was, in fact, an intellectual property case.  It related to a software development contract.  It was tried by an Enterprise judge and the parties were represented by intellectual property counsel.  One of the issues at trial was whether the claimant customer or the defendant developer owned the copyright in the software. The Trial In  Sprint Electric Ltd v Buyer's Dream Ltd and another [2018] EWHC 1924 (Ch) (30 July 2018) Mr Richard Spearman QC tried two sets of proceedings: an action for breach of contract brought by Sprint Electric Ltd. ("Sprint") against Dr Aristides George Potamianos ("Dr Potamianos") and his company, Buyer's Dream Ltd. ("Dream") and an unfair prejudice claim by Dr Potamianos against the principal shareholder and...