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Cloud Cycle v Verifi [2024] EWHC 2001 (Ch)6 August 2024James Abrahams KC and Edmund Eustace appeared for the Defendants (“Verifi”) in a patent dispute relating to the Claimant’s (“Cloud Cycle’s”) system for monitoring a property of concrete (known as ‘slump’) in a mixing truck, and its alleged infringement of one of Verifi’s patents (“EP689”). Unusually, the validity of EP689 was not in issue, and […]
R2 Semiconductor v Intel [2024] EWHC 1974 (Pat)31 July 2024Andrew Lykiardopoulos KC appeared for the defendants (“Intel”) and Edmund Eustace appeared as junior counsel for the claimant (“R2”) in proceedings concerning a dispute on infringement and validity of an R2 patent for semiconductor technology (“the Patent”). The Patent claimed a form of circuitry for a voltage regulator, which R2 alleged was infringed by processors […]
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, […]