Database Rights and Copyright: Technomed v Bluecrest Health Screening
Jane Lambert High Court, Chancery Division, Technomed Ltd and Another v Bluecrest Health Screening Ltd and Another [2017] EWHC 2142 (Ch) (24 Aug 2017) Coram David Stone sitting as a judge of the High Court This was an action for infringement of database right and copyright in an electrocardiogram ("ECG") analysis and reporting system known as ECG Cloud. The System The claimants, Technomed Ltd. and Technomed Telemedicine Ltd. , had developed the system. The companies supply ECG equipment and use the ECG Cloud to analyse ECG readings and report the results to doctors or health screening companies such as the first defendant Bluecrest Health Screening Ltd . ( "Bluecrest" ). Mr Stone, who tried the action, described the operation of the system as follows at para [26] of his judgment: "the process of using ECG Cloud starts with a mobile ECG machine which takes a reading from a patient. The patient data are then...