NIPC Law

Great Hall, Royal Courts of Justice Author Aurelien Guichard   Licence CC BY-SA 2.0   Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Newey and Arnold and Lady Justice Falk)  Lenovo Group Ltd and others v Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) and another [2025] EWCA Civ 182 (28 Feb 2025 ) This was an appeal against Mr Justice Richards's refusal to grant a declaration that a willing licensor and a willing licensee in the situation of the parties to this litigation would agree to, and actually enter into, a short-term cross-licence that would expire once either an English court or the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina fixes the terms of a FRAND cross-licence (see  Lenovo Group Ltd and others v Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) and another [2024] EWHC 2941 (Pat) (19 Nov 2024)). The appeal was heard by Lords Justices Newey and Arnold and Lady Justice Falk on 25 Feb 2025 and judgment was handed down on...

Jane Lambert According to the BBC, the US food blogger  Elizabeth  LaBau  has brought proceedings against the publishers of The Food Network for copyright infringement (see  "US food blogger sues Food Network over snow globe cakes"   3 June 2017). Copyright infringement falls within the jurisdiction of the federal courts in the USA so I looked up recent filings in the US District Court and found that proceedings had been filed on 1 June 2017 by  William Bowen  on behalf of Ms LaBau against Television Food Network GP in the  US District Court for the Central District of California.  Ms LaBau blogs about cakes and desserts in her  SugarHero! blog . One of her confections is " Snow Globe Cupcakes with Gelatin Bubbles ". The BBC reports that Ms LaBau does not complain that copying her recipe infringed her copyright as "it is almost impossible to claim copyright over a list of ingredients" but she does object...