NIPC Law

Lord Leggatt By Supreme Court of United Kingdom -  (see Terms and conditions) Licensed under the Open Government Licence 3.0, OGL 3,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97243730   Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lords Lloyd-Jones, Kitchin, Leggatt, Stephens and Richards)  Lifestyle Equities CV and another v Ahmed and Another [2024] UKSC 17 (15 May 2024) This was the second excursion to the UK Supreme Court for Lifestyle Equities CV and Lifestyle Licensing BV ("Lifestyle")  in 2024.  Its first was Lifestyle Equities CV and another v Amazon UK Services Ltd and others [2024] UKSC 8 (6 Mar 2024) which I discussed in  Trade Marks: Lifestyle Equities v Amazon   on 12 March 2024.  As in the previous case, the claim that gave rise to these appeals was an action for trade mark infringement in relation to the BEVERLY HILLS POLO CLUB range of clothing and accessories.   The Issues The issues in the appeals were summarized by Lord Leg...

Royal Courts of Justice Author DCastor   Public Domain Dedication   Source Wikipedia, Royal Courts of Justice Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Miles) Capitol Records and others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [2021] EWHC 409 (Ch) (25 Feb 2021 This was an application by representatives of the British sound recording industry for an order under s.97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 requiring the 6 largest internet service providers in the UK accounting for 91% of the fixed-line internet market to block their subscribers' access to a website known as "NitroFlare" on the grounds that that site infringed the claimants' copyrights on a massive scale.  The application came on before Mr Justkce Miles on 3 Feb 2021. In  Capitol Records and others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [ 2021] EWHC 409 (Ch), which he handed down on 25 Feb 2021, he grated the claimants' application. The Legislation S.97A provides: "(1) The Hig...

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...