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Nintendo v Playables [2010] EWHC 1932 (Ch)28 July 2010Martin Howe QC and Jonathan Hill acted for Nintendo in their successful application for summary judgment against a substantial dealer in devices used for circumventing the copyright protection measures used by Nintendo to protect Nintendo DS handheld games consoles and the games and storage media designed for use with them. Floyd J considered the application […]
SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Limited [2010] EWHC 1829 (Ch)23 July 2010The Claimant (S) had developed an integrated set of analytical software programs (SAS) which enabled users to carry out a wide range of data processing and analysis tasks, by writing their own application programs in the SAS language. S’s customers over the years developed thousands of application programs written in the SAS language but they […]
Donvand Limited v Ozaltun Otelcilik Turizm Ve Ticaret Ltd Sti and Others18 July 2010Daniel Alexander QC acted for the claimant, one of the leading UK travel intermediary companies and Mark Platts Mills QC and Jessie Bowhill acted for the defendants in a substantial international trade mark dispute principally relating to the gta brand in the travel industry. The case came to trial before Floyd J in the High […]
Siemens v Seagate (High Court of Northern Ireland, 2010)16 June 2010Patent for a Magnetoresistive Sensor asserted against read/write heads used in disk drives. James Mellor QC led James Whyte. Awaiting judgment as of May 2011
Kerr v. Lawrence Shaw [2010] EWHC 585 (Ch)19 March 2010This was a claim by Mr Kerr against his former patent agents, whom were represented by Mark Chacksfield, in which the Claimant alleged that he should have obtained valuable patent rights in Canada. The trial covered a huge range of issues, from the scope of the retainer, breach, causation and damage, and included expert evidence […]