NIPC Law

Lufthansa Technik's Hangar at Frankfurt Airport Author Franzffm   Licence CC BY-SA 3.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Leech) Lufthansa Technik AG v Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems and Another [2025] EWHC 375 (Pat) (21 Feb 2025) Lufthansa Technik AG v Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems and Another (Re Interest) [2025] EWHC 1034 (Pat) (30 April 2025) This was a proceeding known as an "account of profits".  Its purpose was to determine the profits that Astronics Advanced Electronics Systems ("Astronics"), Safran Seats GB Zodiac Seats UK Limited ("Safran") and Panasonic Avionics Corp ("Panasonic") had gained from infringing  European Patent (UK) 0 881 145 B1  ("the patent"). The transcript of the proceeding was very long, consisting of 693 paragraphs and an appendix. The Actions  The account was the second stage of actions that Lufthansa Technik AG ("Lufthabsa") had launched again...

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...

Author  Basher  Eyre  Licence  CC BY-SA 2.0   Source  Wikimedia Commons   Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Melissa Clarke) PSN Recruitments Ltd  v Ludley and another [2023] EWHC 3153 (IPEC) (8 Dec 2023) This was a claim by PSN Recruitment Ltd (trading as Cosmopolitan Recruitment ("Cosmopolitan") against its former employee, Graeme Ludley ("Mr Ludley").   Mr Ludley had emailed to himself particulars of Cosmopolitan's clients. set up a Greenscape Specialist Recruitment Ltd ("Greenscape") as a competing business and told Cosmopolitan's clients that he was still working for the same employer but from a different location and under a different corporate name.  Cosmopolitan sued Mr Ludley and the company for breach of confidence and passing off  in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ("IPEC") . Their defence to the breach of confidence claim was that the information was easily obtainable from trade publicatio...