NIPC Law

Manchester Central Library Author Mike Peel Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert According to the Intellectual Property Office's Facts and Figures   for 2016 and 2017, 24 out of the 38 inter partes disputes that came before the Office's tribunals arose from disputes over ownership of inventions.   This can be an expensive and time consuming process as I explained in Disputes over Ownership of Inventions  6  Aug 2015 NIPC Southeast.  Disputes over ownership of other intellectual property  ("IP") rights result in infringement actions like MEI Fields Designs Ltd v Saffron Cards and Gifts Ltd and another [2018] EWHC 1332 (IPEC) (6 June 2018) which I discussed in Copyright: MEI Designs Ltd. and Saffron Cards and Gifts Ltd . 8 Aug 2018. Many of those disputes arise out of collaboration between different business entities where no or insufficient attention  was paid to...

Skylon Spaceplane Author WD Graham (GW Simulations) Licence Reproduction licensed by the author Source Wikipedia   Jane Lambert In Commercial Exploitation of Space: Space Industry Act 2018   10 April 2018 I mentioned the government's aim to expand the British share of the global space market from the present 6.5% to 10% by 2030. Much of that growth will come from the development of small satellite delivery vehicles and suborbital transports which will take off and land on conventional runways. The development of facilities for such spacecraft is likely to stimulate local economic activity considerably.  I mentioned the cluster of aerospace businesses that is already gathering at Cornwall Airport Newquay  in NIPC Cornwall   this morning.  Newquay is one of a number of airports around the coast of Great Britain planning to handle space traffic. Such facilities fall into the definition of "spaceports" provded by s.3 (2) of the Space Indu...

Author Mike Gimelbelb Licence Copyright waived by author Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert For many years space was a government activity largely because most of the early uses of the technology were military and the vehicles that launched transported people and objects into space were developed from missiles. Gradually, civilian uses were found for the technology such as satellite broadcasting, remote sensing and telecommunications.  The value of the global space market is between £155 and £190 billion and likely to rise to £400 billion by 2030 according to the  Space Sector Report 1  which was prepared for the House of Commons Committee on Exiting the European Union. The Industrial Strategy white paper   states that   the United Kingdom has about 6.5% of that market and that the government hopes to increase that share to 10% by 2030. In order to achieve that goal the British government has to update the legal framework that regulates the ...