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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.
M?lnlycke Health Care -and- BSN Medical9 November 2012Richard Meade QC recently appeared for the defendants in a patent infringement action involving composite wound dressings. Although the patent was held to be valid, the defendants successfully resisted the allegations of infringement. One of the integers of the relevant claim was that gel in the wound-facing layer of the dressing penetrated into holes in […]
University of Southampton & Howlett v Mohtasham [2012] EWHC 1630 (QB)8 November 2012This was a three week trial in the Queen’s Bench Division in which Jessie Bowhill acted for the successful Claimants. The Defendant in that case had over the course of eight years published allegations throughout the world that the University of Southampton and leading academics in the field of nuclear non-proliferation had plagiarised her work, […]
Medimmune Ltd v Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1234.16 October 2012Richard Meade QC recently appeared in the Court of Appeal in MedImmune Ltd v Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1234. This case concerned the patentability of a technique called antibody phage display, which can be used to select antibody fragments that bind to specific antigens. At trial, Arnold J held that the claimant’s patents […]
Actavis v. Sanofi [2012] EWHC 2545 (Pat)27 September 2012A team from Chambers including Daniel Alexander QC and Andrew Lykiardopoulos (Sanofi) and Richard Meade QC with Junior Tim Powell (Actavis) recently appeared before Mr Justice Arnold in Actavis v. Sanofi. The case raises further important issues on the interpretation of the SPC Regulation. The dispute concerns the validity of an SPC for the combination […]
Alfa Laval v Separator Spares [2012] EWCA Civ 1569, [2013] 1 WLR 111019 September 2012Martin Howe QC and James St Ville acted for the successful appellants and John Baldwin QC acted for the respondents in Alfa Laval v. Separator Spares [2013] 1 WLR 1110 [2013] CP Rep 9 [2013] ILPr 10 [2013] ICR 455 [2013] FSR 22. This appeal concerned the proper test for determining whether breach of confidence […]
Eli Lilly v Human Genome Sciences [2012] EWCA Civ 11855 September 2012Following the decision of the Supreme Court in  HGS v Eli Lilly [2011] UKSC 51  , the case was remitted to the Court of Appeal to decide the outstanding issues of sufficiency of the antibody claims and extension of protection. Michael Tappin QC again acted for HGS. The Court of Appeal upheld the validity of […]
Quick Draw v Global Live Events & ors [2012] EWHC 2105 (Ch30 July 2012Judgment has been given in the media law case Quick Draw v Global Live Events & ors [2012] EWHC 2105 (Ch). Jonathan Hill acted as co-counsel for the successful claimant, a bridge financier which put up substantial loans to fund the Michael Jackson tribute concert at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. The claimant established trust and […]
R (Vuciterni and Alsat UK Ltd) v Brent Magistrates? Court and Brent and Harrow Trading Standards Service [2012] EWCA 2140 (Admin)25 July 2012Martin Howe QC appeared for the claimant and James Mellor QC for the defendant trading standards service in this application for judicial review where the Administrative Court (Davis LJ and Irwin J) quashed a warrant which had been issued by a magistrate allowing its officers to enter Mr Vuciterni’s home and his company’s business premises […]