NIPC Law

Ocado Van Author Tomjhpage   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source    Wikimedia   J ane Lambert Patents Court (HH Judge Hacon) AutoStore Technology AS v Ocado Group Plc and other s [2021] EWHC 1614 (Pat) (11 June 2021) This was an application by Ocado Plc, several of its subsidiaries and a supplier of equipment to the Ocado companies ("Ocado") for an interim injunction to restrain AutoStore Technology AS ("AutoStore") from disclosing an allegedly confidential and privileged document to the US International Trade Commission .  The document had been delivered to Ocado in "without prejudice" negotiations to settle various disputes between the parties.   In the proceedings before the Commission, AutoSrore alleged that Ocado had infringed several of its US patents.  Ocado pleaded that AutoStore was estopped from alleging infringement on the ground that AutosSrore had previously assured Ocado that Ocado had not infringed those patents.  AutoStore cla...

Author David Castor Licence CCO 1.0   Source Wikipedia Royal Courts of Justice Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Lewison, Floyd and Hamblin)  Addlesee and others v Dentons Europe LLP [2019] EWCA Civ 1600 (2 Oct 2019) This was an appeal against Master Clark's refusal to order disclosure of certain documents on the grounds that they were privileged.  The applicants for disclosure were investors in a Cypriot company called Anabus Holdings Ltd ("Anabus") and the respondents were Anabus's former solicitors. Anabus had been wound up though it would still have been possible to restore it to the register.  The applicants, who had lost a lot of money from investing in Anabus, had brought deceit and negligence proceedings against the solicitors. At paragraph [1] of his judgment, Lord Justice Lewison summarized the issue in this appeal as: "what happens to legal advice privilege attaching to communications between a company and its lawyers...