NIPC Law

Author ERab123   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Sir Andrew McFarlane P, Lord Justice Arnold and Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing) JC Bamford Excavators Ltd v Manitou UK Ltd and another [2023] EWCA Civ 840 (17 July 2023) This is an important case on the law of confidence and trade secrets as well as Patent Court Practice.  In   JC Bamford Excavators Ltd v Manitou UK Ltd and another  [2022] EWHC 1724 (Pat) (4 July 2022) which I discussed in  Patents - J C Bamford Excavators Ltd v Manitou UK Ltd   on 7 March 2023 the defendants, Manitou UK Ltd. and Manitou BF SA ("Manitour"), disclosed information relating to the configuration of the control system of their telehandlers  to a group of nominated lawyers and experts from both parties known as "a confidentiality club ". The reason Manitou limited their disclosure to that group was explained by their solicitor: "Manitou should be entitled to prot...

Jane Lambert   Patents Court (Sir Alistair Norris)  Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and another v Archos SA and other s [2020] EWHC 2641 (Pat) (9 Oct 2020) In these proceedings, Sir Alistair Norris was asked to vary a confidentiality order that had been made by Mr Justice Mann at a case management conference on 22 July 2020.  The order was made in an action to set the terms of a licence to work certain patents that were alleged to be essential for compliance with a mobile telecommunications standard. That was one of a number of issues between the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and    Sisvel International SA on the one hand and several implementers of the standard on the other.   The other issues were the jurisdiction of the English courts, whether the patents had been infringed and whether the terms of the licence that the claimants were prepared to offer were fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("FRAND"). The reason why Mr Justice Mann made ...

Jane Lambert Appointed Person (Mr Martin Howe QC) Re Registered Design No 6045074, Lambretta Club Great Britain v Frankland BL 0-129-20 6 March 2020 This was an appeal to the Appointed Person by Mr Gavin Frankland against the decision of Mr Oliver Morris on behalf of the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks in  Re Registered Design No 6045074, Lambretta Club Great Britain v Frankland   BL 0-373-19  5 July 2019 declaring invalid the registration of Design Number 6045074 . The appeal was heard by Mr Martin Howe QC on 2 March 2020.  Mr Howe delivered his judgment dismissing the appeal on 6 March 2020 (see    Re Registered Design No 6045074, Lambretta Club Great Britain v Frankland BL 0-129-20 6 March 2020). Mr Frankland, who claims to be President of the British Lambretta Owners Association  and was once a member of the Lambretta Club Great Britain , applied to register the above device as a registered desi...