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Panasonic v Xiaomi [2024] EWHC 1733 (Pat)5 July 2024Isabel Jamal appeared as junior counsel for the Claimant (“Panasonic”) in an application for declaratory relief made by the First to Fourth Defendants (“Xiaomi”) in ongoing FRAND proceedings. Xiaomi sought declarations that Panasonic’s FRAND commitment required it to offer Xiaomi an interim licence to various of Panasonic’s patents declared essential to the 3G and 4G […]
Engineer.AI Global v Appy Pie [2024] EWHC 1430 (IPEC)19 June 2024Engineer.AI Global Ltd provided “no code” app development services. It had a series of registered trade marks including BUILDER and BUILDER.AI in word and in stylised forms. The second defendant Appy Pie LLP supplies “no code” app builders of the drag and drop type. In 2022, Engineer.AI sued the defendants for infringement in respect of […]
easyGroup v Beauty Perfectionists [2024] EWHC 1441 (Ch)13 June 2024James Abrahams KC and Maxwell Keay represented the successful defendants (“Beauty Perfectionists”) in trade mark infringement proceedings brought by the claimant (“easyGroup”), regarding Beauty Perfectionists’ use of versions of the sign “easyCOSMETIC” in relation to its online cosmetics business. easyGroup relied on two marks for the word “EASYJET”, registered for various goods and services including, […]
Samsung v Alexion [2024] EWHC 1407 (Pat)6 June 2024James Whyte appeared for the claimant (“Samsung”) in its successful application to expedite a trial, in which Samsung seeks to revoke a patent owned by the defendant (“Alexion”). The patent, which was granted earlier this year, is said to give Alexion refreshed rights over the antibody drug eculizumab. Eculizumab is an orphan drug which is […]
Supponor v AIM Sport Development [2024] EWCA Civ 39623 April 2024Daniel Alexander KC appeared for the successful respondents (“AIM”) in an appeal arising from a patent trial in January 2023. At trial, Meade J found a patent owned by AIM (“the Patent”) valid and infringed by a system used by the appellant (“Supponor”). The Patent claimed a method for digitally overlaying images onto TV broadcasts, […]