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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...

Meryl Streep who acted the lead role in Florence Foster Jenkins Author Glynn Lowe   Licence CC BY 2.0   Source  Wikipedia Florence Foster Jenkins    Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr Justice Meade)  Martin and another v Kogan [2021] EWHC 24 (Ch) (11 Jan 2021) This was the retrial of an action by the screenwriter, Nick Martin, for a declaration that he was the sole author of the screenplay for the film Florence Foster Jenkins   and a counterclaim by Julia Kagan for a declaration against Mr Martin and the companies that had funded and made the film that she was a joint author and thus a joint owner of the copyright in the screenplay and relief for infringement of her copyright and moral rights.  The action and counterclaim had previously come on before Judge Hacon who found for Mr Martin in Martin and Another v Kogan [2017] EWHC 2927 (IPEC) (22 Nov 2017).  Ms Kogan appealed to the Court of Appeal which ordered a new tria...