NIPC Law

Latvia from Space Author  S eaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE Public Domain   Source     Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Arnold and Nugee and Lady Justice Falk) Playtech Software Ltd v Realtime SIA and another [2025] EWCA Civ 1472 (21 Nov 2025) This was an appeal by Realtime SIA ("Realtime") and Igors Veliks ("Mr Veliks") against Mr Justice Thompsell's order of 24 Jan 2025 dismissing their challenge to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales in respect of claims for alleged breach of confidence and copyright infringement made by  Playtech Software Ltd ("Playtech") for the reasons given in his judgment in Playtech Software Ltd and another v Games Global Ltd and others [2024] EWHC 3264 (Ch) of18 Dec 2024. The Parties Playtech is a member of a group of companies that designs, develops and supplies online gambling games and associated software.   Another member of the group is a Latvian com...

  Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Baker, Arnold and Nugee)  Lifestyle Equities CV and others v Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club Ltd and others  [2024] EWCA Civ 814 (22 July 2024) This was the claimants' appeal against Mr Justice Mellor's order in  Lifestyle Equities CV and Anotherr v Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club Ltd and others (Rev1) [2023] EWHC 1839 (Ch) (19 July 2023).  By that judgment, Mr Justice Mellor dismissed the claimants' claim for trade mark infringement and passing off.  The appeal came on before Lords Justices Baker, Arnold and Nugee on 9 July 2024.  The hearing was filmed and may be viewed on the Court of Appeal's YouTube channel ( morning  and afternoon ). At the end of the oral proceedings, the Court of Appeal said that it would dismiss the appeal.  Lord Justice Arnold with the agreement of Lords Justices Baker and Nugee delivered their reasons in  Lifestyle Equities CV and others v Royal County of...

Author Mcwesty   Licence Public Domai n Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lords Hodge, Briggs, Hamblen, Burrows and Kitchin)  Lifestyle Equities CV and another v Amazon UK Services Ltd and others [2024] UKSC 8 (6 Mar 2024) The Beverly Hills Polo Club  is a popular range of clothing and luxury goods on both sides of the Atlantic.  The Dutch companies Lifestyle Equities  CV and Lifestyle Licensing BV ("Lifestyle"), hold the Beverly Hills Polo Club brands in the European Union and UK.  An unconnected business that holds corresponding rights in the USA supplies Beverly Hills Polo Club branded goods to the American market.  Amazon.com Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Amazon") are one of the American supplier's distributors in the USA.  They market those goods on their US website,  Lifestyle has complained that consumers in the UK have purchased goods intended for the American market from that website and imported them into t...

Royal Courts of Justice Author Anthony M   Licence   CC BY 2.0 Dee d Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Arnold and Nugee and Sir Christopher Floyd) easyGroup Ltd v Nuclei Ltd and others   [ 2023] EWCA Civ 1247 (27 Oct 2023) This was an appeal by easyGroup Ltd. ("easyGroup") against the order of Mrs Justice Bacon in  easyGroup Ltd v Nuclei Ltd and others [2022] EWHC 901 (Ch) of 13 April 2022,  She dismissed easyJet's claim for trade mark infringement and revoked the marks on which it had relied.  Those marks were  UK trade mark No. 2313529A  and  EU trade marks Nos. 2907509  and  11624376 .  The appeal came on before Lords Justices Arnold and Nugee and Sir Christopher Floyd on 10 and 11 Oct 2023.  The hearing was filmed and can be viewed on YouTube (see the first day of the hearing  and the second day ).    At the end of the hearing, the Court announced tha...