NIPC Law

Border Terrier Author Biffo4tanks , Licence CC BY-SA 3,0   Source Wikipedia Border Terriers Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr Recorder Campbell) The Kennel Club Ltd v Micro-ID Ltd [2019] EWHC 1639 (IPEC) (25 June 2019)  The Kennel Club  is the UK authority for dog breeding, dog shows and other matters relating to dogs. One of its services is Petlog  which indexes data held on chips that are implanted into dogs and other pets. Petlog helps police and other agencies restore lost or stray pets to their keepers. The defendant company,  Micro-ID Ltd , is one of a number of businesses that implant chips into animals. The Kennel Club charges implanters such as Micro-ID a fee for entering chip data into Petlog pursuant to a contract known as the Reunification Database Management Agreement. The Kennel Club sued Micro-ID for £123,843.03 for moneys due under that agreement or, alternatively, by way of damages for bre...

Author  Ssolbergj Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Licence Source  Wikipedia Jane Lambert IPEC (Mr Recorder Campbell), Scomadi Ltd and Another v RA Engineering Co. Ltd and Others [2017] EWHC 2658 (IPEC) (27 Oct 2017) On 19 Sept 2017, I chaired seminars in the studios of Northern Ballet in Leeds and at the Barnsley Business and Innovation Centre in South Yorkshire at which Tom Duke, our intellectual property attaché in Beijing, spoke on  “Succeeding in China – How to mitigate IP risk” as part of a China IP Roadshow (see Jane Lambert Meet our IP Attaché to China   21 July 2017 IP Yorkshire). One of the reasons why Tom made that tour is that an increasing number of British IP owners contract with manufacturers in China and other countries where production costs are lower than in the UK to make goods for them under licence. Often such arrangements work very well but sometimes they can go very badly wron...