NIPC Law

Junction of Fetter Lane and Rolls Building Author Basher Eyre Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 Generic Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr David Stone)  MEI Fields Designs Ltd v Saffron Cards and Gifts Ltd and another [2018] EWHC 1332 (IPEC) (6 June 2018) This was an action for the infringement of copyright with a counterclaim for a declaration of non-infringement.  The copyrights in question subsisted in artwork for greetings cards that had been created by Mel Fields ( "Mrs Fields" ). The  main issue in this case was over who owned those copyrights rather than whether they had been infringed. Indeed, Mr David Stone, the deputy judge who tried the action and counterclaim remarked at para [19] of his judgment:  "unusually for a copyright case, I was never actually taken to the allegedly infringing cards at issue in these proceedings." The Facts Mrs Fields worked as des...

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...