NIPC Law

Author Martin E Walder   Licence CC BY-SA  3.0   Source Cryptocurrency   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Wirex Ltd v Cryptocarbon Global Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 617 (IPEC) (16 March 2021) This was an action for trade mark infringement and a counterclaim for a declaration that the registration of that mark was invalid and passing off.  The action and counterclaim came on for trial before His Honour Judge Hacon on 26 Jan 2021.  His Honour dismissed the counterclaim and gave judgment to the claimant on 16 March 2021 (see  Wirex Ltd v Cryptocarbon Global Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 617 (IPEC) (16 March 2021). The Mark The mark in suit was  CRYPTOBACK  which the claimant Wirex Ltd,  had registered for a large range of goods and services in classes 9, 36 and 42 under registration number UK00003307327 with effect from 28 April 2018.  Wirex used that mark in relation to a credit card incentive ...

Author Raysonho Licence CC 1,0     Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mellor) Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and another v Oneplus Technology (Shenzhen) Co Ltd and others (FRAND CMC Judgment ) [2021] EWHC 493 (Pat) (4 March 2021) This was an application for an order under Part 18 of the Civil Procedure Rules requiring the 9th to 12th defendants ("the Xiaomi defendants") to answer the claimants; requests for further information of their statement of case.  The claimants had served over 100 requests upon the Xiaomi defendants on 12 Feb 2021 most of which those defendants had offered to answer by 16 March 2021. However, there were 2 requests that they refused to answer on the grounds that they were requests for expert evidence to which the claimants were not entitled until the exchange of experts' reports. At a case management conference before Mr Justice Mellor on 2 March 2021, the claimants applied for an order requiring the 9th to 12th defendants to answer all 100 ...

By Seauton , 24 February 2019 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Lord Justice Warby) HRH the Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 669 (Ch) (22 March 2021) Following the largely successful summary judgment application by Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Sussex against the publisher of The Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline in HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd . [2021] WLR(D) 100, [2021] 4 WLR 35, [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) which I discussed in Summary Judgment - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers on 12 Feb 2021, Lord Justice Warby granted a declaration, injunction and publication order to the duchess and gave directions for the conduct of the remaining proceedings in HHR The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 510 (Ch) (5 March 2021). I discussed those proceedings in Judgment and Order: Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd on 9 March 2021, There remained issues over the wordin...

Author Evan-Amos   Licence CC BY-SA 3.0   Source Wikipedia Hard disk drive Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon)  Penhallurick v MD5 Ltd [2021] EWHC 293 (IPEC) (15 Febr 2021) This was a dispute between MD5 Ltd., a leading digital forensics company, and Michael Penhallurick, its former employee, over ownership of the copyrights in 8 works that relate to a technique called virtual forensic computing ("VFC").  The action was brought by Mr Penhallurick, the author of those works. He claimed copyright in the works and alleged that they had been infringed by MD5. MD5, for its part, claimed to own the copyrights and counterclaimed for copyright infringement and breach of contract.  Copyright in Works created by Employees Questions on who owns the copyright in literary and artistic works created by employees are asked frequently in my IP clinics and occasionally in formal instructions even though they rarely get as far as trial....

Author Judicial Office UK  Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source  Wikipedia Commons   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Miles)  Young Turks Recordings Ltd ad others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [2021] EWHC 410 (Ch) (25 Feb 2021) This case appears to be the first decision in the UK on  "stream ripping ".   It took the form of an application by the British sound recording industry for orders requiring the 6 largest internet service providers in the United Kingdom to block their subscribers' access to a number of stream ripping sites under s.97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988  ("CDPA")  or alternatively s .37 Senior Courts Act 1981.  Background The claimants and defendants, in this case, were the same as in  Capitol Records and others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [ 2021] EWHC 409 (Ch) which I discussed in  Blocking Orders - Capitol Records v British Telecommunications Plc ...

By Seauton, 24 February 2019 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77004919   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Lord Justice Warby) Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 510 (Ch) (5 March 2021) On 11 Feb 2021, Mr Justice Warby (as he then was) gave judgment in the Duchess of Sussex's application for summary judgment in her claim for misuse of personal information and copyright infringement.  She was largely successful and I discussed his judgment in  Summary Judgment - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers   12 Feb 2021. There remained the following issues which the learned lord lustice set out at para [10] of a further judgment ( HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd . [2021] EWHC 510 (Ch) (5 March 2021) after a full day's hearing on 2 March 2021: "(1) What are the remaining issues in the action, and what is the most appropriate procedural mechanism for dealing with them? (2) What re...

Royal Courts of Justice Author DCastor   Public Domain Dedication   Source Wikipedia, Royal Courts of Justice Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Miles) Capitol Records and others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [2021] EWHC 409 (Ch) (25 Feb 2021 This was an application by representatives of the British sound recording industry for an order under s.97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 requiring the 6 largest internet service providers in the UK accounting for 91% of the fixed-line internet market to block their subscribers' access to a website known as "NitroFlare" on the grounds that that site infringed the claimants' copyrights on a massive scale.  The application came on before Mr Justkce Miles on 3 Feb 2021. In  Capitol Records and others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [ 2021] EWHC 409 (Ch), which he handed down on 25 Feb 2021, he grated the claimants' application. The Legislation S.97A provides: "(1) The Hig...