NIPC Law

Jane Lambert   Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (His Honour Judge Hacon) Luxe World Ltd v Touch of Vogue Ltd and another [2026] EWHC 148 (IPEC) (30 Jan 2026) S.26C (1) of the Registered Designs Act 1949 provides that proceedings in respect of an actionable threat may be brought against the person who made the threat for— (a) a declaration that the threat is unjustified; (b) an injunction against the continuance of the threat; (c) damages in respect of any loss sustained by the aggrieved person by reason of the threat. An "actionable threat" in this context means a threat to sue for infringing a registered design. S.26A (1) states that a threat of infringement proceedings made by any person is actionable by any person aggrieved by such a threat, subject to the provisions of subsections 26A (2) to (5). S.26 (1) adds that a communication contains a “threat of infringement proceedings” if a reasonable person in the position of a recipient would understand from the comm...

The Rolls Building , L ocation of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court Author Muhammad Karns, Judicial Office X feed Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon)  Edozo Ltd v Valos (UK) Ltd [2026] EWHC 93 (IPEC) (21 Jan 2026) This was an application by the claimant to strike out parts of the defendant's defence and counterclaim. The claimant had brought proceedings for a declaration of non-infringement of copyright, while the defendant counterclaimed for relief from infringement.     The claimant's application came before His Honour Judge Hacon on 15 Jan 2026.  By para [61] of his judgment in  Edozo Ltd v Valos (UK) Ltd [2026] EWHC 93 (IPEC) (21 Jan 2026), His Honour acceded to the application. The Parties The claimant was Edozo Ltd ( "Edozo" ) and the defendant was Valos (UK) Ltd . (" Valos ").  The judge described Edozo and Valos as "competitors in a market which...

By Taner Yildirim ( The National Institute of Standards and Technology - NIST ) -  Public Domain ,  Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Melissa Clarke)  Boghossian v IOP Publishing Ltd .  [2025] EWHC 3317 (IPEC) (17 Dec 2025) This was an action for copyright infringement brought by  Ardemis Boghossian ("Prof Boghossian")  against  IOP Publishing Limited ("IOP"), the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics  and publisher of the journal Nanotechnology .  Prof Boghossian claimed joint ownership of the copyright in a paper which IOP published in Nanotechnology in the names of Dejan M Djokic ("Dr Djokic") and  Aranya Goswami ("Mr Goswami") on 23 Oct 2017.  IOP brought Part 20 proceedings against Dr. Djokic seeking an indemnity or contribution in case Prof Boghossian's claim succeeded. The Parties Prof Boghossian was a chemical engineer and research scientist. In 2015, she was an Assistant Profe...

  Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Harrison (t/a Rayson Engineering) v Buchanan and anothe r [2025] EWHC 3283 (IPEC) (17 Dec 2025) This was a claim for breach of contract and copyright infringement.  The contract claim was based on the claimant's allegation that the defendants commissioned him to create drawings of components for an electrochemical water conditioner.  The copyright claim was based on the claimant's further allegation that copyright subsisted in those drawings, that he was the first owner of those copyrights and that the defendants had used the drawings without his licence.  The defendants denied that there was a binding agreement and argued that the drawings were not fit for purpose.  The action came on for trial before His Honour Judge Hacon on 21 Nov 2025.  By para [21] of his judgment in Harrison (t/a Rayson Engineering) v Buchanan and Another [2025] EWHC 3283 (IPEC), which he handed down on 17 ...