NIPC Law

Author  Satoshi Nakamoto  Source  Wikimedia Jane Lambert Chancery Division  (Mr Justice Mellor)  Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright   [2024] EWHC 3315 (Ch) (19 Dec 2024) and  [2024] EWHC 3316 (Ch) (20 Dec 2024) This was an application by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance ("COPA") for the committal of Craig Steven Wright ("Dr Wright") for contempt of court.  COPA alleged that Dr Wright had breached various anti-suit and anti-threat injunctions that Mr Justice Mellor had granted on 16 July 2024 by issuing proceedings against BTC Core and SquareUP Europe Ltd.  Mr Justice Mellor heard the application on 18 Dec 2024 and delivered judgment on 19 Dec 2024 (see Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright [2024] EWHC 3315 (Ch)).  At para [136] of that judgment he found Dr Wright to be in contempt of court.  At paras [2] and [79] of  Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright (Re Sentencing)  [2024] EWHC 3316 (Ch) which he handed down on...

Jane Lambert   Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Judge Melissa Clarke) Software Solutions Ltd and others v 365 Health and Wellbeing Ltd. and another [2021] EWHC 237 (IPEC) (9 Feb 2021) This was an action for copyright and database right infringement. The work that was alleged to have been infringed was what Her Honour Judge Melissa Clarke called "a computer application development framework" known as the "Integrated Development Environment for Applications" ("IDEA"). In other words, a tool for developing software. The first application ever to be created with the use of that tool was a mental health application called "Beating the Blues" ("BTB"). It was not disputed that copyright subsisted in the IDEA system, in each of its components and in its source code and that such copyrights belonged to the first claimant. It was also common ground that BTB reproduced the IDEA System source code materials. The claimants alleged that the d...

Author Ordnance Survey Licence OS OpernDaya    Source Wikipedia Ordnance Surb=vet Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Birss) 77m Ltd v Ordnance Survey Ltd [2019] EWHC 3007 (Ch) (8 Nov 2019) Ordnance Survey Ltd . ("OS") is the national mapping service for the United Kingdom. Since the 18th century, it has published very accurate and detailed maps of the topography of the nation that are useful for all kinds of business as well as hikers, cyclists and other leisure users.  More recently,  OS has developed a  product called AddressBase   which matches 28 million Royal Mail postal address to unique property reference numbers. A startup company called 77m Ltd ("77") developed a similar product named Matrix using a variety of licensed or publicly available materials including some that  OS had created.  77 contended that it had created Matrix without infringing any of OS's intellectual property rights ("IPR") but...