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HTC v Apple [2012] EWHC 1789 (Pat)4 July 2012On 4 July 2012, Mr Justice Floyd handed down judgment in HTC v Apple [2012] EWHC 1789 (Pat). This was a major patents action, concerning 4 Apple patents which relate to the way in which smartphones operate, including the famous "slide to unlock" patent. HTC were represented by a team of barristers from 8 New […]
Linguascope -and- Promethean Limited28 June 2012Robert Onslow and Jessie Bowhill were recently on opposing sides before the Intellectual Property Office in invalidity proceedings involving word marks with a common prefix. The hearing officer held that although the cited marks formed a "family" of marks with a common prefix and differing suffixes, the descriptive nature of the prefixes meant that the […]
Football Dataco Ltd v Sportradar GmbH Case C-173/1121 June 2012Sui generis database rate. Reference to the CJEU concerning where an internet transmission of infringing data occurs.
Sudarshan v Clariant [2012] EWHC 1569 (Ch)13 June 2012 Martin Howe QC and Henry Ward appeared for the claimant in this action for invalidation of a patent or declaration of non-infringement, and threats. The patent was for what was said to be a new crystal modification (polymorph) of a pigment which had been discovered and previously patented by Clariant. John Baldwin QC (sitting as […]
SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd Case C-406/102 May 2012Martin Howe QC, Robert Onslow and Isabel Jamal acted for the defendant in Case C-406/10 SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd [2012] 3 CMLR 4, where the Grand Chamber gave judgment answering questions about whether copyright in a computer program or in the manuals relating to it can prevent the replication of the functions […]