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Performing Right Society Ltd v B4U Network (Europe) Ltd [2012]15 November 2012James Mellor QC and James Abrahams recently acted for the defendant in Performing Right Society Ltd v B4U Network (Europe) Ltd [2012] EWHC , a case concerning ownership of copyright in Bollywood film music. The main issue was whether an assignment clause in agreements between the claimant collecting society and its composer members should be […]
Football Dataco Ltd v Yahoo! UK Ltd Case C-604/1012 November 2012Reference to the CJEU concerning the question of whether database copyright subsists in football fixture lists.
M?lnlycke Health Care -and- BSN Medical9 November 2012Richard Meade QC recently appeared for the defendants in a patent infringement action involving composite wound dressings. Although the patent was held to be valid, the defendants successfully resisted the allegations of infringement. One of the integers of the relevant claim was that gel in the wound-facing layer of the dressing penetrated into holes in […]
University of Southampton & Howlett v Mohtasham [2012] EWHC 1630 (QB)8 November 2012This was a three week trial in the Queen’s Bench Division in which Jessie Bowhill acted for the successful Claimants. The Defendant in that case had over the course of eight years published allegations throughout the world that the University of Southampton and leading academics in the field of nuclear non-proliferation had plagiarised her work, […]
Medimmune Ltd v Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1234.16 October 2012Richard Meade QC recently appeared in the Court of Appeal in MedImmune Ltd v Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1234. This case concerned the patentability of a technique called antibody phage display, which can be used to select antibody fragments that bind to specific antigens. At trial, Arnold J held that the claimant’s patents […]