NIPC Law

Tipstaff By Simon Speed - Originally uploaded through the Britain Loves Wikipedia website. Public Domain,  h ttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10585201   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (HH Judge Paul Matthews)  Bargain Busting Ltd v Shenzhen SKE Technology Co Ltd and others [2026] EWHC 933 (Ch) (23 April 2026) These were applications by Shenzgen SKE Technology Limited ("SST") and their trade mark attorneys to strike out an application by Bargain Busting Ltd. ("BBL") to commit them to prison for contempt of court.  There was also a cross-application from BBL to add another of SST's trade mark attorneys as an additional respondent to the contempt proceedings. Alleged Contempt The alleged contempt was "Criminal contempt (intentional interference with the administration of justice) by seeking to prevent or delay the registration of a trademark as directed by the High Court." BBL had applied to register CRYSTAL BAR as a UK trade mark.  SST opp...

Author Sodacan   Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Deed   Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (The Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Nugee and Sir Christopher Floyd)  Flitcraft Ltd and others v Price and another [2024] EWCA Civ 136 (27 Feb  2024) On 31 Jan 2024, the Court of Appeal (consisting of The Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Nugee and Sir Christopher Floyd) heard two separate appeals against orders by Nicholas Caddick KC in proceedings that had been brought by Philip Price ("Mr Price") and others against Flitcraft Ltd ("Flitcraft") and others for patent and copyright infringement and passing off.   I commented on the main trial of that action in  Patents, Copyright and Passing off - Price v Flitcraft Ltd   on 16 Jan 2023 and in A Patent Trial in Manchester at Last - Price v Flitcraft Ltd   on 17 Jan 2023 in IP Northwest and on Mr Caddick's judgment on costs following a further hearing on 16 March 2023 in Costs - Price v Flitcr...

© 2021 Jane Lambert: All rights reserved Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr John Kimbell QC)   Vimage Products Ltd. v Data Candy Ltd and others   [2022] EWHC 606 (IOEC) (18 March 2022_ Sometimes, through no fault of its own, a claimant joins someone who was not responsible for the alleged wrongdoing as a defendant.    That is what appears to have happened in  Vimage Products Ltd v Data Candy Ltd and others [2022] EWHC 606 (IPEC) when Vimage Products Ltd. sued Data Candy Ltd and its director, Joanne Roper, as defendants to an action for design right infringement and passing off.  Vimage joined them as defendants because they appeared to be the owners of a website that advertised allegedly infringing articles. In their defence, the defendants denied infringement and identified Lenken Ltd. as the owner of the website.  Vimage and Lenken tried unsuccessfully to resolve their dispute without recourse to litigation.  Vimage applied ...