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Madonna v Associated Newspapers1 October 2009The Mail on Sunday published photographs of Madonna’s wedding to Guy Ritchie thereby infringing both her rights of privacy and her rights in copyright and also selling a lot of newspapers. The issue was the amount of compensation the newspaper should pay. The case settled with the payment of a very substantial sum to one […]
Wake Forest v Smith & Nephew [2009] EWCA Civ 84831 July 2009Revocation of Patent for Negative Pressure Wound Therapy. James Mellor and Andrew Lykiardopoulos acted for the appellants and Daniel Alexander QC and James Abrahams acted for the respondents  
Bambino Mio Ltd v Cazitex NV [2009] EWCA Civ 92229 July 2009This action involved a claim for Section 10(2) TMA 1994 trade mark infringement in relation to the Defendant’s, Cazitex’s, reusable nappies. The UK trade mark (registered for inter alia nappies) in issue was ‘Bambino Mio’, the potentially infringing mark ‘Bambineo’. After the High Court trial the claim was dismissed, the Judge finding in favour of […]
Whirlpool Corp. and another v Kenwood Limited [2009] EWCA Civ 75323 July 2009Represented by members of chambers on both sides, this action is of great importance in the context of the alleged infringement of three dimensional trade marks by the shape of goods. The action involved allegations of trade mark infringement and passing off in relation to a new Kenwood food mixer, the “kMix”, brought by the […]
Generics [UK] Ltd v Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 6462 July 2009Michael Tappin appeared for the claimant on this appeal from a judgment of Kitchin J [2008] EWHC 2413 on a trial in which James Mellor QC had also appeared for the claimant.  The case concerned the validity of a patent and SPC for the enantiomeric antimicrobial levofloxacin.