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Great Legal Bake18 February 2020On 10th February, we took part in the Great Legal Bake, organised by the London Legal Support Trust.  Members of Chambers baked, donated and bought cakes, raising £205 for the Trust.  The money raised will be used to support the valuable work of law centres and legal advice agencies in London and the South East. […]
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc v (1) Nathan James (2) Jordan Salvato (3) Paris Steer (4) Cameron Boness (5) Jonathan Eke [2020] EWHC 179 (Pat)29 January 2020Jaani Riordan appeared for the claimants in a claim for breach of an end user licence agreement, copyright infringement and circumvention of technological protection measures. The claim related to the development, distribution and sale of cheat software called Epsilon for use with the video game Grand Theft Auto V (“GTAV”). Epsilon is a software program […]
Managing Intellectual Property Awards 202028 January 2020
Beth Collett nominated in Women in Law Awards 202028 January 2020Beth Collett has been nominated in the ‘Rising Star’ category at the Women in Law Awards 2020. The Awards take place in June, and will honour the inspiring achievements of women in all areas of the legal industry.
Christopher Wheat v Google LLC [2020] EWHC 27 (Ch)15 January 2020Jaani Riordan appeared for the respondent (“Google”) in this appeal against a decision of Chief Master Marsh refusing to grant the appellant, Mr Wheat, permission to serve Google out of the jurisdiction. Mr Wheat operated a website to which he had uploaded photographs and articles that he had authored. He discovered that third parties were […]
Easygroup Ltd v (1) Easyfly SA (2) Alfonso Avila Velandia and (3) Gie Avions de Transport Regional [2020] EWHC 40 (Ch)14 January 2020Jaani Riordan appeared as Junior Counsel for the proposed Third Defendant (“ATR”), a subsidiary of Airbus, in this opposition to joinder. EasyGroup brought a claim alleging trade mark infringement, passing off and unlawful means conspiracy against the First Defendant, a Colombian airline providing domestic flights in Colombia under the name EASYFLY, and related claims against […]
Conversant Wireless Licensing v Huawei and ZTE8 January 2020Tom Moody-Stuart QC and James Whyte appeared for the claimant and Michael Tappin QC and Henry Ward appeared for the defendants in this patent action, one of a series of technical trials between these parties.  This trial was to determine whether three of the claimant’s patents were valid and essential to telecommunications standards relating to […]
Beth Collett panellist on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. One hundred years of women in law7 January 2020
77m Ltd v Ordnance Survey Ltd [2019] EWHC 3007 (Ch)20 December 2019In this dispute relating to the rights in mapping and addressing databases, Jaani Riordan represented 77m and Lindsay Lane QC and Jessie Bowhill represented Ordnance Survey. 77M had created a dataset called Matrix consisting of geospatial coordinates and addresses in Great Britain. It had done so by using a wide range of datasets which were […]
Teva UK Ltd & Ors v Gilead Sciences, Inc [2019] EWCA Civ 227219 December 2019“On 19 December 2019, the Court of Appeal issued its judgment in Teva v. Gilead concerning the supplementary protection certificate relating to the antiviral combination sold under the name Truvada ®.  Gilead’s appeal from Arnold J was dismissed and the court confirmed the invalidity of the SPC on the ground of non-compliance with Article 3(a) […]