NIPC Law

Source DEFRA   Licence Open Government Licence Jane Lambert As the United Kingdom is a member of the World Trade Organization, Her Majesty's Government is required to protect geographical indications by Section 3  of the  Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ("TRIPS") .  Until the end of 2020, those obligations will continue to be discharged on the United Kingdon's behalf by the European Union pursuant to art 127 (1) of the  Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community ("the withdrawal agreement").   The arrangements by which the obligations are discharged at present are described in the following DEFRA guidance note, EU protected food names: how to register food or drink products   22 May 2015 and summarized in my article Geographical Indications - "If it's outside Yorkshire it's not worth ..................!...

Jane Lambert Appointed Person (Mr Martin Howe QC) Re Registered Design No 6045074, Lambretta Club Great Britain v Frankland BL 0-129-20 6 March 2020 This was an appeal to the Appointed Person by Mr Gavin Frankland against the decision of Mr Oliver Morris on behalf of the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks in  Re Registered Design No 6045074, Lambretta Club Great Britain v Frankland   BL 0-373-19  5 July 2019 declaring invalid the registration of Design Number 6045074 . The appeal was heard by Mr Martin Howe QC on 2 March 2020.  Mr Howe delivered his judgment dismissing the appeal on 6 March 2020 (see    Re Registered Design No 6045074, Lambretta Club Great Britain v Frankland BL 0-129-20 6 March 2020). Mr Frankland, who claims to be President of the British Lambretta Owners Association  and was once a member of the Lambretta Club Great Britain , applied to register the above device as a registered desi...

Author  Pumbaa80 Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported Source Wikipedia: Portal Association Football  Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Nugee)  Davies v Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (1986) Ltd [2019] EWHC 1252 (Ch) (15 May 2019) This was a claim for infringement of copyright .  The football club, Wolverhampton Wanderers , known as Wolves, has a stylized wolf's head as a logo.  It can be seen at the centre of the menu bar of the club's website and in lots of photos. The club has used that logo on players' shirts, signage, programmes, business stationery and so on ever since 1979.  In the early 1960s when the claimant was at secondary school he drew stylized animal heads including that of a wolf which bore a considerable resemblance to the club's logo. In this action, he claimed that copyright subsists in his drawings as original artistic works and that Wolves had infringed his copyright by...