NIPC Law

Royal Courts of Justice Author Aurelien Guichard   Licence CC BY-SA 2,0   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Lewison, Lady Justice Asplin and Lord Justice Arnold)  Travel Counsellors Ltd v Trailfinders Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 38 (19 Jan 2021) This was an appeal by Travel Counsellors Ltd ("TCL") against the judgment of His Honour Judge Hacon in  Trailfinders Ltd v Travel Counsellors Ltd and others   [2020] EWHC 591 (IPEC) (12 March 2020) that Andrew La Gette and David Bishop, the second and fifth defendants had both acted in breach of their contracts of employment and in breach of equitable obligations of confidence to Trailfinders Ltd and that TCL had acted in breach of an equitable obligation of confidence.  I discussed the case in  Trade Secrets - Trailfinders Ltd v Travel Counsellors Ltd. and Others   on 20 March 2021. It is not clear from the transcripts of either the appeal or the trial whether it was the trial judge or a Lord Justice w...

Basher Eyre /  Junction of Fetter Lane and Rolls Buildings  /  CC BY-SA 2.0 Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Warby)  Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd (Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 1058 (Ch) (1 May 2020) This was an application by the publisher of the Mail on Sunday  and the Mail Online  to strike out certain allegations contained in the particulars of claim and further information of the Duchess of Sussex  and later the reply  in an action that she has brought against the publisher for copyright infringement, misuse of private information and infringement of her rights under the General Data Protection Regulation .  The complaint arises from the newspaper's publication of a letter from the duchess to her father on 10 Feb 2019. Nature of the Application It is important to understand from the outset that this was a procedural application and that no decision has been made on the merits of the Duchess o...

Jane Lambert On 14 May 2014 the Intellectual Property Bill received royal assent. The Act made some far reaching changes in patents, registered design and unregistered design right law which I summarized in "Reflections on the Intellectual Property Act 2014"    7 June 2014   4-5 IP Tech and discussed in detail in " How the Intellectual Property Act 2014 changes British Patent Law"   21 June 2014 JD Supra, "How the Intellectual Property Act 2014 changes British Registered Design Law"   19 June 2014 JD Supra and "How the Intellectual Property Act 2014 will change British Unregistered Design Right Law"   11 June 2014 JD Supra 11 June 2014. On 28 Aug 2014 Lady Neville-Rolfe , Minister for Intellectual Property, signed  The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014  which will bring many of the provisions of the Act into force. Commencement Art 3 of the Order provides that most of the...