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Actavis Group HF v Eli Lilly & Co [2012] EWHC 3316 (Pat)12 December 2012Richard Meade QCacted for the successful claimant in Actavis Group HF v Eli Lilly & Co [2012] EWHC 3316 (Pat).  This is an important decision which recognises that English courts have jurisdiction to hear claims for infringement of multiple foreign designations of a European patent. The defendant applied to strike out or stay the action […]
JW Spear & Sons Ltd and Mattel Inc v. Zynga [2012] EWHC 3345 (Ch)6 December 2012Adrian Speck QC acted for the claimants and James Mellor QC and Ashton Chantrielle for the defendant in a partial summary judgment application for invalidity of the claimants’ Community trade mark for a tile used in the claimants board game SCRABBLE. The defendant was successful on the basis that the claimants tile mark did not […]
Rugby Football Union v CIS Ltd (formerly Viagogo Ltd) [2012] UKSC 55,21 November 2012Martin Howe QC and Tom Moody-Stuart acted for the appellant (CIS Ltd, formerly Viagogo Ltd) in this appeal to the Supreme Court against a Norwich Pharmacal order which had been granted against a ticket exchange website requiring it to identify individuals who had been selling rugby tickets on the website. The Rugby Football Union (respondent […]
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.