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Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd [2012] EWHC 466 (Admin)24 February 2012Martin Howe QC appeared for the appellant (Mrs Murphy) in her appeal against a conviction by Portsmouth Magistrates under s. 297(1) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 for dishonestly receiving programme without paying the charge applicable to its reception, and James Mellor QC appeared for the respondent prosecutor. Mrs Murphy had used an […]
Viagogo Ltd v Myles, Hardcash Productions, and Channel 4 [2012] EWHC 433 (Ch)23 February 2012Martin Howe QC appeared for the Claimant in this application for an interim injunction to prevent the inclusion of confidential commercial information about the identities of customers and prices being included in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme. The information had been obtained by an undercover journalist who had obtained employment with the claimant and the […]
Nokia v IPCom [2012] EWHC 22520 February 2012As part of its long-running dispute with IPCom, Nokia sought revocation of a patent relating to handover of mobile phones between base stations. IPCom sought to amend the patent to one of a number of claim sets; Nokia sought to invalidate the broadest claim set and sought declarations of non-essentiality of all the claim sets […]
Force India Formula One Team Ltd v 1 Malaysia Racing Team Sdn Bhd [2012] 616 (Ch)14 February 2012
FAPL v QC Leisure [2012] EWHC 108 (Ch)3 February 2012James Mellor QC and Charlotte May acted for the claimant (FAPL) and Martin Howe QC for the defendants in this hearing at which Kitchin LJ (sitting at first instance) gave final judgment in the action following the answers given by the ECJ in its judgment (Joined Cases C-403/08 & C-429/08) in response to the questions […]
MMI Research Ltd v Cellixon Ltd & 5 Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 724 January 2012Martin Howe QC andHenry Ward represented MMI Research Limited, the respondents of an appeal in relation to the validity of a patent for ‘IMSI catchers’ which are devices used by the police to ascertain the mobile phones numbers of suspected criminals etc. The main issue was whether or not it was obvious to provide a […]
Force India v F1 Malaysia (Lotus) & Aerolab18 January 2012On-going claim alleging copying of designs for Formula One car, design right infringement, misuse of confidential information, breach of contract. James Mellor QC leading Lindsay Lane in the forthcoming trial.
Michael Mitchell v British Broadcasting Corp [2011] EWPCC 4221 December 2011Copyright infringement trial in the Patents County Court relating to the designs for a group of characters appearing in the animated tv programme for children “Kerwhizz”. The Claimant alleged that the BBC had copied, consciously or subconsciously, designs that had been sent to the BBC in 2008. The BBC denied copying and claimed that the […]
Sandvik IP AB v. Kennametal UK Ltd & Kennametal Europe GmbH [2011] EWHC 331115 December 2011Richard Meade QCand Andrew Lykiardopoulos acted for Kennametal in its successful defence of patent infringement proceedings brought by the Sandvik. The dispute concerned alumina coatings for cutting tools and corresponding litigation is ongoing in the USA and Germany. Arnold J held that the patent was invalid for insufficiency and that the claims alleged to be […]
ITV v TVCatchup [2011] EWHC 2977 (Pat)14 November 2011James Mellor QC and Jessie Bowhill appeared for the claimants and Martin Howe QC for the defendant on this further hearing following the previous judgment given at the conclusion of the trial ([2011] EWHC 1874 (Pat); [2011] FSR 40). Floyd J had deferred giving judgment on certain issues to await the judgment of the ECJ […]