NIPC Law

Callender Cableworks Bank   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels)  Prysmian Cables & Systems Ltd v Apple International and others  [2023] EWHC 2176 (IPEC) (7 Sept 2023) The reason why there is a photo of a brass band is that the band consisted of members of staff at the Erith Works of the Callender Cable & Construction Co. Ltd. That was one of the companies to which Recorder Michaels referred in para [2] of her judgment in  Prysmian Cables & Systems Ltd v Apple International and others [2023] EWHC 2176 (IPEC) (7 Sept 2023). The company merged with British Insulated Cables to form British Insulated Callender Cables Ltd or BICC which was one of the biggest names in British engineering.  BICC's cable business was acquired by Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi and later transferred to the claimant.     Callender Cableworks Band BICC's band, known as Callender's Cableworks Band , was one of the most famous in the country. It was establi

Etihad Stadium Author Cléria De Souza   Licence CC BY  2.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Patents Court   (Mr Justice Meade)    AIM Sport Vision AG v Supponor Ltd and anothe r [2023] EWHC 164 (Pat) (30 Jan 2023) In  AIM Sport Vision AG v Supponor Ltd and another [2023] EWHC 164 (Pat) (30 Jan 2023), the claimant, AIM Sport Vision ("AIM"), accused the defendants, Supponor OY and Supponor Ltd. ("Supponor") of infringing its  European patent (UK)  3 295 663 B1  for digitally overlaying an image with another image with their "SVB System". The invention for which that patent had been granted enables the superimposition of advertisements in TV broadcasts of sporting events that are different from the advertisements seen by spectators on billboards in the stadium. They are also different from advertisements appearing in other television broadcasts of the same game. Thus, the spectators in the stadium may see an advertisement for beer on the billboards