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Tsit Wing v TWG Tea29 January 2016In the first ever trade mark infringement case before the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, Martin Howe QC appeared for the appellants (defendants) leading Doug Clark of the Hong Kong Bar, instructed by Hogan Lovells Hong Kong. Mark Platts-Mills QC appeared for the respondents (plaintiffs) leading Winnie Tam SC (a door tenant of 8 […]
Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Ltd, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and others [2016] EWHC 94 (Pat)29 January 2016Members of chambers appeared in the second of five technical trials (Trial B) in this mobile telecommunications patent action. Trial B involved two patents, EP 2 119 287 and EP 2 485 514, both of which concerned a scheme relating to the updating of neighbour cell lists. Deciding the case in favour of Huawei and […]
The London Taxi Corporation Ltd v Frazer-Nash Research Ltd and Ecotive Ltd20 January 2016Mark Platts-Mills QC (instructed by BLP) acted for the successful defendant in this Trade Mark infringement and passing off action relating to the design of a new zero-emissions London taxi.
Gama Healthcare Limited v Pal International Limited [2016] EWHC 75 (IPEC)20 January 2016Martin Howe QC, instructed by Kuit Steinart Levy LLP, appeared for the Claimant. This passing off action concerned the get-up of clinical wet wipes used in the healthcare industry. Gama alleged that the get-up adopted by Pal for its own disinfectant and detergent wet wipes was so similar to Gama’s packaging that it was likely […]
Accord v Medac [2016] EWHC 24 (Pat)13 January 2016This was an invalidity action in relation to a patent for a formulation of methotrexate for the treatment of inflammatory diseases including rheumatoid arthritis. The patent was attacked for obviousness over certain prior art and separately over the common general knowledge alone, and also for insufficiency. The patent was held to be invalid over one […]