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Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Misuse of private information-breach of copyright-summary judgment and/or strike out of defence
R (on the application of Drain) v Birmingham Crown Court and others
Trade Marks Act - s.97 Trade Marks Act 1994 - Trade marked goods - Forfeiture order - Article 1 Protocol 1 (A1P1) - Comatibility with European Convention Rights
Wade & Perry v British Sky Broadcasting Limited
Television Format Rights - Breach of Confidence - Confidential Information - Protection of Combination of Features - Inferences Drawn from Findings of Fact - Need to Challenge Evidence by Cross Examination
Cartier International AG v BSkyB (CA)
Injunctions – s.37 Senior Courts Act 1981 – web-blocking – trade marks – intellectual property – EU law – Norwich Pharmacal orders - costs
Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd
copyright - browsing - temporary exemption - European law - Directive 2001/29
Robyn Rihanna Fenty v Arcadia Group Brands Ltd (T/A Topshop)
passing off - t-shirt - intellectual property - goodwill
Phillips v (1) News Group Newspapers Ltd (2) Glenn Mulcaire; Coogan v (1) News Group Newspapers Ltd (2) Glenn Mulcaire
Protection from self incrimination - s. 72 Senior Courts Act 1981 - meaning of ‘intellectual property’ - compatibility of s. 72 Senior Courts Act 1981 with Art 6 ECHR
Sleeman v Panchaud
Defamation -- Injunctions - Without Notice Injunctions - Bonnard v Perryman - Practice & Procedure - s.110 Patents Act 1997 - Unauthorised Claim of Patent Rights
Google France, Google Inc. v Louis Vuitton Malletier
Trade Marks - Infringement - Internet - Search engine - Google 'AdWord' service - Whether operation of service infringed trade marks - Article 14 of Directive 2000/31 - Whether service within hosting exemption
Far Out Productions Inc v Water Music Productions Ltd & Ors
Discontinuance – CPR r. 38.6 - Alternative order for costs – Whether valid reason for departing from deemed order under r. 44.12 that C pay costs on standard basis.
Lucasfilm Ltd & Ors v Ainsworth & Anor
Copyright - Infringement - Sculpture - Allocation of jurisdiction - Foreign copyright protection - Conflict of laws
FA Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure & Ors
Copyright - Broadcasts - s.298, Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Infringement of copyright - Directives 98/84/EC, 89/552/EEC, 93/83/EEC, 2001/29/EC - Competition law - Articles 28, 49, 81, EC Treaty - Reference to European Court of Justice - Article 234, EC Treaty - Territorial licences - Decoders - Football matches - Use of non-UK decoders to received broadcasts of football matches in UK pubs
Patel v Allos Therapeutics Inc
Domain names - Trade marks - Registration of domain name with intent to use a protest site - No active use - UDRP - Order to transfer domain name to trade mark owner - Whether breach of registrant's rights under European Convention on Human Rights - Defamation - Malicious falsehood - Harassment - Wrongful threats - s.21, Trade Marks Act 1994
O2 Holdings Ltd & Anor v Hutchison 3G UK Ltd (ECJ)
Trade mark - Infringement - Comparative advertising - Art 5, Trade Marks Directive – Art 3a(1), Comparative Advertising Directive – Reference to ECJ - Right to prevent use of sign identical or similar to registered mark — Whether extending to use of sign in comparative advertising
Fisher v Brooker & Onward Music (CA)
Copyright - Musical work - Joint authorship - Composition of song - Delay - Acquiescence - Laches - Proprietary estoppel - Impossibility of fair trial - Assignment - Contract - Unfairness - Remedies - Declaratory relief - Ownership
Balan v Moldova
Human rights - Photographs - Protocol 1, Article 1, ECHR - Peaceful enjoyment of possessions - State use of private property - Unauthorised use of photographs - Photographer's right to compensation
Astron Clinica Ltd & Ors v Comptroller General
Patents - Software - Patentability of software - UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) practice - Substantive inventive contribution
FA Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure & Ors
Copyright - Broadcasts - ss.298, 299 Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Competition law - Article 81, EC Treaty - Infringement of copyright - Territorial licences - Decoders - Football matches - Use of non-UK decoders to received broadcasts of football matches in UK pubs
Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd
Copyright - Broadcasts - Criminal offences - ss.6, 297(1) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - EC Directive 93/83 - Dishonestly receiving programme included in broadcasting service provided from place in UK with intent to avoid payment of applicable charge - Place from which broadcasting service provided - Transmission by continuous chain of communications - Intent
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office & Ordnance Survey v Green Amps Ltd
Copyright – Crown copyright – Ordnance survey maps – Infringement - Defences - Fair dealing - Research for a non-commercial purpose – s.29(1), Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Whether dealing 'fair'
Jules Rimet Cup Ltd v The Football Association Ltd
Trade marks - Applications - Application for trade marks in 'bad faith' - Relevance of legal advice in determining 'bad faith'
Passing off - Goodwill - Subsistence of goodwill in absence of commercial activity
Copyright - Artistic works - Duration - Exploitation of artistic work by industrial process - S.52, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Infringement - Substantial part
L’Oreal S.A. v Bellure N.V. and others
Infringement of Trade Marks for "Smell-Alike" replica perfumes - "Unfair Advantage" - References to European Court - Use of comparison tables - Art 5(1)(a), 5(2) and 6(1)(b) Directive 89/104 on Trade Marks 1988 - Passing off - Unfair competition
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd & Others v Vetplus Ltd (CA)
Prior restraint – Interim Injunctions – Human Rights Act section 12(3) – European Convention on Human Rights Article 10 – Comparative Advertising – Libel – Malicious Falsehood – Trade Marks
Fearns v Anglo-Dutch Paint & Chemical Co Ltd & Ors
Trade marks - Infringement - Passing off - Misrepresentation - Malicious falsehood - Publication - Copyright - Infringement - Duration - s.52 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Breach of contract - Causing loss by unlawful means
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd & Others v Vetplus Ltd (ChD)
Prior restraint – Interim Injunctions – Human Rights Act section 12(3) – European Convention on Human Rights Article 10 – Comparative Advertising – Libel – Malicious Falsehood – Trade Marks
De Landtsheer Emmanuel v Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne
Comparative advertising – Identifying a competitor or the goods or services offered by a competitor – Goods or services satisfying the same needs or with the same purpose – Reference to designations of origin
Baigent and Leigh v The Random House Group Ltd (CA)
Copyright - Literary work - Infringment - Substantial part - Non-verbal copying - Intention - Animus furandi
Nova Productions Ltd v Mazooma Games Ltd & Ors (CA)
Copyright - Graphic works - Literary works - Infringement - Substantial part - Idea/expression - Computer software - Series of graphic works - s.4(2) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Cembrit Blunn Ltd & Anr v Apex Roofing Services LLP & Anr
Copyright - Subsistence - Infringement - Breach of confidence - Defences - Contract - Satisfactory quality - Sale of Goods Act 1979, s.14(2)
HRH The Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers (No.3) (CA)
Breach of confidence - Public interest - Privacy - Article 8, ECHR - Freedom of expression - Article 10, ECHR - Contractual duty of confidence - Copyright - Fair dealing - Summary judgment - Relevant issue of fact necessitating trial
Fisher v Brooker & Onward Music Ltd
Copyright - Musical work - Joint authorship - Composition of song - Significance of contribution - Fair trial - Assignment - Estoppel - Laches
Verlagsgruppe News GmbH v Austria (No.2)
Privacy- Article 8 - Freedom of expression - Article 10 - Publication of photographs - Criminal proceedings - Copyright -Injunctions
O2 Holdings Ltd & Anor v Hutchison 3G Ltd (CA)
Trade marks - Infringement - Comparative advertising - Arts 5(1), 5(2), Trade Marks Directive - Comparative Advertising Directive - Defence - Purely descriptive use of mark - Whether requirement that use of mark indispensible to make comparative advertisement effective
L’Oreal S.A. v Bellure N.V. and others
Trade Mark Infringement - s.10(3) Trade Marks Act 1994 - No likelihood of confusion - 'Link' - Whether unfair advantage or detriment to the repute of the mark - Whether 'free-riding' enough - Similarity between mark and sign not similarity between products.
Grant v Google UK Ltd
Copyright - Infringement - Identity of infringer unknown to claimant - Identity known to third party - Order to disclose identity - Norwich Pharmacal Co and others v Customs & Excise Commissioners [1974] AC 133
Barrett v Universal-Island Records & Others
Contract - Parties - Agency - Copyright - Authorship - Performers' rights - ss.182A, 182B, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Regulation 27, Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996 - Unjust enrichment - Settlement agreement - Enforcement of settlement agreement - Abuse of process - Estoppel, acquiescence and laches - Cause of action estoppel - Trust of a promise
Apple Corps Ltd v Apple Computer Inc
Trade marks - Music - IT - Breach of worldwide trade mark sharing agreement - Similar/identical marks - Fields of trade mark use
Sportswear SpA & Four Marketing Ltd v Stonestyle Ltd (CA)
Trade marks - Infringement - Defence - Trade Marks Act 1994, s.12 - Goods distributed within EEA with consent of owner - Competition law - EC Treaty, Art 81 - Anti-competitive agreements - Striking out
HRH The Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No 3)
Breach of Confidence - Privacy - Copyright - Public Interest - Fair Dealing - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24 - Injunction - Delivery Up - Damages
HRH The Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Confidential Information - Reporting restrictions - Restrictions on use of a disclosed document - Documents read or referred to in open court - CPR 31.22
Polydor & Ors v Brown & Ors
Copyright - Making available - ss.16(1)(d) & 20 Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Internet - Music - File-sharing - Peer-to-peer software - Ignorance of distribution - Summary judgment - Real prospect of success
Brown v Mcasso Music Productions Ltd
Costs - Discretion - Part 36 Offers - Refusal to Negotiate - Copyright - Appeal from Patents County Court
Taylor v Rive Droit Music Ltd
Music law - Contract - Music publishing agreement - Contradictory and inconsistent terms - Duration of agreement - Infringement - Meaning of 'composition' - Implied terms - Positive and negative obligations - Unlawful interference with goods - Allegations of dishonesty
Synthon BV v SmithKline Beecham plc
Patents – Enabling disclosure – Novelty – State of the art – Patent invalid by reason of prior disclosure which, if performed, would infringe the patent – Anti-depressants – Crystalline form – Patents Act 1977, ss. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 14
Global Projects Management Ltd & Anor v Citigroup Inc & Ors
Domain Names – Infringement – Passing off - Trade marks – Maintenance of Domain an Instrument of Fraud – Cybersquatting - ss.10(3) and 21 Trade Marks Act 1994 – Summary Judgment
Clearsprings Management Ltd v Businesslinx Ltd
Copyright - Assignment - Databases - Equitable ownership - Implied licences - Implied terms - Source codes
GMG Radio Holdings v Tokyo Project Ltd
Passing off - Confusion - Artwork - Get-up - Injunction - Serious issue for trial - Balance of justice - Damages adequate remedy
Daikin Europe N.V. v Daikin International Ltd
Company Names - Passing Off - Trade Marks - John Doe orders
Wistbray Ltd v Creative Nature Ltd
Trade marks - Infringement - s.10(2)(b) Trade Marks Act 1994 - Summary judgment - Similarity between word mark and pictorial sign - Likelihood of confusion
Laboratoires Goëmar SA v La Mer Technology Inc
Trade marks - Genuine use - Non-use - Revocation - Importation - Internal use - s.46 Trade Marks Act 1994
Sales v Stromberg & others
Unregistered designs – Breach of Confidence – Passing Off – Designs Based on Simple Geometric Shapes – Originality Test –s.213(4) Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988
London General Holdings v USP Holdings plc
Copyright - Breach of Confidence - Causation of Damage - Assessment of Reasonable Notional Royalty
British Horse Racing Board v William Hill Organization Ltd
Database rights - Meaning of substantial investment in obtaining verification or presentation of contents of database - Sport - Horseracing
Société des produits Nestlé SA v Mars UK Ltd
Trade marks – Directive 89/104/EEC – Absence of distinctive character – Distinctive character acquired through use – Use as part of or in conjunction with a registered trade mark
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc v Grokster Ltd
USA - Copyright Infringement - Peer-to Peer Software - Liability for Third Parties' Infringement
Hyperion Records Ltd v Sawkins
Copyright - Musical works - Performing editions of non-copyright works - Subsistence of copyright - "Original" - "Musical" - s.3 CDPA 1988 - Infringement of copyright - Moral rights - Right to be identified as author - s.77 CDPA 1988
Fraser-Woodward Ltd v BBC & Brighter Pictures Ltd
Copyright - Photographs - Fair dealing - Criticism and Review - Sufficient Acknowledgement - Incidental Inclusion
Experience Hendrix LLC v Purple Haze Records Ltd & Others
Copyright - CDPA 1988, ss.181, 206 - 'Qualifying performance' - Retrospective legislation - Rights of co-performers - Contractual assignment of rights - 'Controlling mind' of a company
IPC Media Ltd v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Copyright - Comparative advertising - Comparative Advertising Directive - Fair dealing for purpose of criticism or review - s.30(1) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Fair dealing for the purpose of reporting current events - s. 30(2) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
IPC Media Ltd v Highbury SPL Publishing Ltd
Copyright - Infringement - Artistic Works - Similarities - Copying - Independent creation - Magazines - Covers and articles
Novello & Co Ltd v Keith Prowse Music Publishing Co Ltd (CA)
Copyright - Assignments - Reversionary Interest - Inter Vivos - Musical Works - Copyright Act 1956 - Copyright Act 1956, Sch.7 para.28(3) - Copyright Act 1911, s.5(2)
British Horseracing Board v William Hill
Database right - Infringement - Horseracing database - Indirect sourcing of data - Extraction or re-utilisation of substantial part - Repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilisation of insubstantial parts - Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 - Database Directive 96/9/EC
Celador Productions Ltd v Melville
Copyright - Confidential information - Television programme format - Summary judgment - Real prospect of success - Abuse of process - Compelling reason for trial
News Group Newspapers Ltd v Douglass Consultancy Services Ltd
Copyright - Photographs - Website - Interim Injunction
Navitaire Inc v Easyjet Airline Co & Another
Copyright - Computer programs - Dissimilar code - "Non-textual copying" - Airline booking system - User commands - Screen displays - Software Directive
Phonographic Performance Ltd v DTI
Copyright - Limitation - Damages - Community Directive on copyright into national law - Consequential loss - Whether fresh claim each time loss suffered - Whether statute-barred - s.2 Limitation Act 1980 - Art 8(2) Council Directive 92/100/EEC
Sony v Ball
Copyright - Copyright-protection - Circumvention - CDPA 1988, s.296 - 'infringing copies' - 'sole intended purpose' - CDPA 1988, ss.296ZA-ZD
Brighton & Dubbeljoint v Jones
Intellectual Property- Copyright - Dramatic work - Joint author - Substantiality of contribution - Infringement - Implied authorisation - Contract
Building Product Design Ltd v Sandtoft Roof Tiles Ltd
Patents - Infringement - Abuse of Process - Measure of Damages - Res Judicata - Only one type of infringement pleaded - Second action brought on excluded types.
Novello & Co Ltd v Keith Prowse Music Publishing Co Ltd (ChD)
Copyright - Assignments - Reversionary Interest - Inter Vivos - Musical Works - Copyright Act 1956 - Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Copyright Act 1911, s.5(2)
Cyprotex Discovery Ltd v University of Sheffield
Intellectual Property- Copyright - Computer Programs - Construction of Contractual Terms
Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd v Alfred McAlpine plc
Intellectual Property- Passing off - Company names - Shared goodwill - Misrepresentation - Confusion
Reed Executive plc & Another v Reed Business Information Ltd & Others
Intellectual Property- Trade Marks - Company Name - Identical/Similar Marks - Use of Trade Marks as Metatags
Bedford v The Number (UK) Ltd
Intellectual property- sports law- OFCOM- Advertising- complaint under r 6.5 ITC Advertising Code - whether the claimant was caricatured in a 118 advert
Miguel Torres SA v Cantine Mezzacorona SCARL
Trade Marks - EC Law - Origin marking - Wine Labelling - TRIPs - Council Regulation 2392/89
Miles v ITV Networks Ltd & Another
Intellectual Property - Copyright - Infringement - Inference of copying - Breach of Confidence - CPR Part 24 - Summary Judgment - Mini-trial
Griggs Group Ltd & Others v Evans & Others
Intellectual Property - Trademarks - Copyright - independent contractor - equitable ownership
Peer International Corp v Termidor Music Editora Musical de Cuba
Copyright - Musical works - Assignments - Licenses - Reversionary copyrights - Cuban law - Effectiveness of purported assignments of reversionary copyrights
Gabrin v Universal Music Operations & Another
Intellectual Property - Copyright - Commission - s.4(3) Copyright Act 1956 - Licence - Infringement
Associated Newspapers Ltd & Another v Express Newspapers
Intellectual property - Passing off - Trade mark infringement - Trade mark validity - Injunction - Clarity of proposed use
Bloomsbury Publishing Group Ltd v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Intellectual property - Copyright - injunction - whether an injunction could be obtained against an unnamed party -John Doe injunction
Confetti Records & Others v Warner Music UK Ltd
Copyright - Musical work - Licence - Offer and acceptance - Moral rights - Derogatory treatment - s.80(2)(b), CDPA 1988
Bloomsbury Publishing Group Ltd v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Others
Intellectual property - Copyright - Confidence - Conversion - Injunctions - whether an injunction could be granted against an unnamed person -John Doe injunction
Irvine v Talksport Ltd
Intellectual property - Passing off - Celebrity endorsement - Image rights - Judicial notice - False message - Damages - Principles of assessment
Experience Hendrix LLC v PPX Enterprises Inc
Breach of contract - intellectual property - remedies - recording agreement- account of profits - notional licence fee.
Bamgboye v Reed & Others
Copyright - Ownership - Musical work - Joint authorship
Warheit v Olympia Tools Ltd
Patent - Infringement - Costs before Patents County Court - Whether excessive - Detailed Assessment on the basis of normal county court costs of a complex case.
Psychology Press Limited v Nelson Thornes Limited & Another
Publishing contract - restrictive covenant - author's right to freedom of expression - article 10 - injunction
Ludlow Music Ltd v Williams & Others (No.2)
Intellectual property - Copyright - Song lyrics - Infringement -Remedies - Damages - Additional damages - Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s.97(2) - Injunction
Sony Computer Entertainment v Owen
Intellectual property - Copyright - Infringement - Injunction - Additional Statutory Damages - s.97(2) Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
RWD Technologies Ltd v Gibbs & Others
Intellectual property - confidential information - employment law - copyright - without notice order - discharge for non-disclosure - injunction
Allason v Random House UK Limited
Intellectual property - Copyright – Trial – Sole/Joint author – Ghost writer – Claim to be both sole author or joint author factually inconsistent – Whether Claimant acted dishonestly in bringing proceedings – Referral by judge to DPP.
Radio Taxicabs (London) Ltd v Owner Drivers Radio Taxi Services Ltd
Intellectual property - Passing off - Instrument of fraud - Domain name - Injunction - delivery up
Imutran Ltd v Uncaged Campaigns Ltd
Confidential information - copyright - animals - medical research - experiments - interim injunctive relief - s12 Human Rights Act - standard of proof for interim injunction - public interest - democratic society making arrangements to secure public interest
Phonographic Performance Ltd v South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
Intellectual property - Copyright - Local Government - Infringement - Exceptions - Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s.67
Ludlow Music Inc v Williams & Others
Intellectual property - Copyright - Song lyrics - Infringement - Substantial part - Summary judgment - Remedies
Parker v Rasalingham
Injunctions - consent order - breach - legal advice - damages
Phonographic Performance Ltd v Candy Rock Recording Ltd
Intellectual property - copyright - Copyright Tribunal - royalty rate - commercial dubbers - narrowcasters - s.129 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
WH Smith v Colman
Trade Marks - Infringement - Passing off - Registration of Internet Domain Name - Admissibility of without prejudice correspondence
Service Corp International plc & Anor v Channel Four Television Corp & Anor
Undercover filming - employee - trespass - copyright - equitable ownership - breach of confidence - interim injunction - freedom of expression - balance of convenience - delay - discretion
Performing Right Society Ltd v Boizot
Intellectual property - Copyright - Licensing - Performance of musical items - Royalties
Emaco v Dyson Appliances Ltd
Malicious falsehood - comparative advertising - registered trade marks - infringement - whether an inquiry as to damages should be ordered.
Service Corporation International plc & Anor v Channel Four Television & Anor
Copyright - Confidential information - Trespass - Funeral directors - Undercover filming for broadcast - Employee of plaintiffs - Interim injunction - Serious issue to be tried - Balance of convenience
Morgan v BBC
Intellectual propety - Copyright - infringement claim over a screenplay
Island Records Ltd v Tring International Plc
Intellectual property - Copyright - Infringement - Remedies - Election - account of profits - damages
Godfrey v Lees
Intellectual property - copyright- claim for joint ownership
A&M Records Ltd & Anr v Video Collection International Ltd
Intellectual property - Copyright - infringement - action over use of sound recordings embodying music to which the dancers, Torvill and Dean, performed in various dance championships in 1994
Time Warner v Channel 4 Television
Intellectual property - Copyright - film - whether use of clips for television programme an infringement or fair dealing - interim injunction
Nichols Advanced Vehicle Systems Inc & Ors v Rees, Oliver & Ors
Copyright - Infringement - Inquiry as to damages - Delay - Post-judgment delay - Limitation period current - Whether possible to stay - Whether inordinate and inexcusable - Whether prejudice suffered
Nichols Advanced Vehicle Systems Inc & Ors v Rees, Oliver & Ors
Copyright - Infringement - Formula One cars - Working drawings - Subsistence of copyright - Ownership of copyright in drawings - Course of employment - s.9(8), Copyright Act 1956 - Damages - Ss.17,18, Copyright Act 1956