Joint Copyright - Boghossian v IOP Publishing
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...