NIPC Law

  Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Lewison, Moylan and Birss)  Newron Pharmaceuticals SPA v The Comptroller General of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs [2024] EWCA Civ 128 (15 Feb 2024) This was an appeal against the decision of Mr Recorder Campbell KC to uphold  Dr L Cullen's refusal to grant a  supplementary protection certificate ("SPC")  to Newron Pharmaceuticals SpA ("Newron") for the reasons set out in his judgment in  Newron Pharmaceuticals SpA v Comptroller-General of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs  [2023] EWHC 1471 (Ch).  I discussed the proceedings before Dr Cullen and Mr Campbell in  Supplementary Protection Certificates - Newron Pharmaceuticals SpA v Comptroll e r  on 1 July 2023.    What is an SPC?  In that article, I quoted from my reference page on   Supplementary Protection Certificates  which I wrote on 31 Dec 2019 and updated on 11 Jan 2021 "A supplementary protection certifi...

Jane Lambert Appointed Person (Mr Martin Howe QC) Re Registered Design No 6045074, Lambretta Club Great Britain v Frankland BL 0-129-20 6 March 2020 This was an appeal to the Appointed Person by Mr Gavin Frankland against the decision of Mr Oliver Morris on behalf of the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks in  Re Registered Design No 6045074, Lambretta Club Great Britain v Frankland   BL 0-373-19  5 July 2019 declaring invalid the registration of Design Number 6045074 . The appeal was heard by Mr Martin Howe QC on 2 March 2020.  Mr Howe delivered his judgment dismissing the appeal on 6 March 2020 (see    Re Registered Design No 6045074, Lambretta Club Great Britain v Frankland BL 0-129-20 6 March 2020). Mr Frankland, who claims to be President of the British Lambretta Owners Association  and was once a member of the Lambretta Club Great Britain , applied to register the above device as a registered desi...