Craig Wright v COPA/BTC Core14 March 2024Beth Collett acted for the developers in the identity issue trial of Craig Wright v COPA/BTC Core, led by Alex Gunning KC of One Essex Court.  After six weeks in court, the Judge gave an immediate ex tempore ruling based on the overwhelming evidence that Dr Wright is not the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, nor did […]
Wise Payments Ltd v With Wise Ltd & Ors [2024] EWHC 234 (IPEC)9 February 2024Iona Berkeley appeared for the Claimant (“Wise”), and four potential additional parties, three of which were resisting an application to join them to a passing off counterclaim brought by the Defendants (“the Application”). The Application was heard by Pat Treacy, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge in IPEC. The original claim brought by the […]
Thatchers Cider v Aldi [2024] EWHC 88 (IPEC)24 January 2024In 2020, Thatchers Cider Company launched a new product, Cloudy Lemon Cider, and applied its registered trade mark No. 3489711 to the cans and to the 4-can cardboard cartons:         The Cloudy Lemon product was successful, and in May 2022 Aldi launched their own cloudy lemon cider product under their Taurus house […]
Safestand v Weston Homes [2023] EWHC 3250 (Pat)19 December 2023Andrew Lykiardopoulos KC and Henry Edwards represented the Claimant (“Safestand”) in proceedings brought against the Defendants (“Weston”) for infringement of three of Safestand’s patents, and three of its registered designs (“RRDs”). Weston counterclaimed for invalidity of (i) two of the patents (“EP 738” and “UK 822”), for obviousness; and (ii) all three RRDs, based on […]
Tyburn Film Productions v Broughton & Ors [2023] EWHC 3247 (Ch)8 December 2023Tom Moody-Stuart KC and Joshua Marshall appeared for the Claimant (“Tyburn”) and Jonathan Hill appeared for the Fourth and Fifth Defendants (together, “the Defendants”), in the Defendants’ application to strike out and/or obtain summary judgment on Tyburn’s unjust enrichment claim against them. The application, and Tyburn’s claims against other defendants in the proceedings, relate to […]