NIPC Law

Conrad Lant Author Jonas Rogowski Licence CC BY-SA 3. 0 Source Wikimedia   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels)  Lant v Plastic Head Music Distribution Ltd and another [2025] EWHC 1954 (IPEC) (31 July 2025) Between 1979 and 1986, Conrad Lant  and Anthony Bray were members of a band called " Venom ".  Each of them had licensed the sale of merchandise reproducing logos and other artwork from that time without the other's consent.  Mr Lant brought proceedings against Mr Bray and his licensee, Plastic Head Music Distribution Limited, for infringement of any copyright that might have subsisted in those works.  Mr Bray and Plastic Head said that Mr Bray was entitled to copyright in some of those works and denied that copyright subsisted in others.  Mr Bray brought infringement proceedings against Mr Lant and his licensee, Razamataz.com Ltd., by way of counterclaim.  The action and counterclaim were tried by Rec...

Portobello Road, Notting Hill By Papertree at English Wikipedia - Originally from en. Wikipedia; description page is/was here. Original uploader was Papertree at en. wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3073800   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Master Kaye sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) C ourtenay-Smith and another v The Notting Hill Shopping Bag Company Limited and others    [2025] EWHC 1793 (IPEC) (18 July 2025) This was a claim for copyright and trade mark infringement and passing off and a counterclaim for revocation and invalidation of the second claimant's trade mark.  The action and counterclaim came on for trial before Master Kaye  sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court on 7 and 8 April 2025.   The learned master handed down her judgment in  C ourtenay-Smith and another v The Notting Hill Shopping Bag Company Limited and others    [2025] EWHC 1793 on 18 July 202...