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Jake Fior v The Walt Disney Company Limited [2017] EWHC 2933 (IPEC)13 November 2017In a trade mark dispute about ‘ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS’ Henry Ward for the Defendants Disney successfully applied to strike out the Claimant’s pleading that relied on without prejudice correspondence. The Judge held that the exceptions to the without prejudice rule in Oceanbulk Shipping & Trading SA v TMT Asia Limited [2010] UKSC 44 […]
Quentin Cregan speaks at the Licensing Executives Society (LES) in Munich10 November 2017Quentin Cregan was an invited speaker at the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Germany conference on “Industie 4.0 und IP mit Exkurs zum BREXIT” hosted at the IBM Watson IoT Munich Center on 10 November 2017. The other speakers included Ken-ichi Nagasawa, Head of IP for Canon Inc; Beat Weibel, Head of IP for Siemens AG; Dr. […]
Accord Healthcare Limited v Research Corporation Technologies [2017] EWHC 2711 (Ch)6 November 2017In this case William Duncan appeared for the Claimant, led by Piers Acland QC of 11 South Square. This action related to a patent for lacosamide; an anti-epileptic drug. Accord Healthcare Limited sought to invalidate the SPC protecting lacosamide, on grounds that the patent was invalid. Accord challenged the entitlement of the patent to claim […]
8 New Square Wins IP Set Of The Year30 October 20178 New Square won the IP Set Of The Year at the 2017 Chambers & Partners Bar Awards on the 26th October. The award was accepted by Mark Platts-Mills QC and Paul Worrall.
Ghanaian Maritime Boundary Dispute – PI law and a little IP23 September 2017Ghana v. Cote d’ Ivoire Members of 8 New Square have a tradition of practising in areas outside IP. In one notable example, our former head of chambers Michael Fysh QC, a leading expert on rights to foreshore, acted in one of the longest and most important cases on fishing licences. That tradition has been […]
Technomed v Bluecrest Health Screening [2017] EWHC 2142 (Ch)24 August 2017Jonathan Hill successfully represented the claimants (“Technomed”) in this claim for infringement of sui generis database right and various copyrights by the defendants (“Bluecrest” and “Express”). Bluecrest had entered a contract with Technomed for the provision of heart screening services, using Technomed’s Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis and reporting system (known as the ECG Cloud). This was […]
Technomed Ltd v Bluecrest Health Screening Ltd24 August 2017Jonathan Hill successfully represented the claimants (“Technomed”) in this claim for infringement of sui generis database right and various copyrights by the defendants (“Bluecrest” and “Express”). Bluecrest had entered a contract with Technomed for the provision of heart screening services, using Technomed’s Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis and reporting system (known as the ECG Cloud). This was […]
Premier League Commission8 August 2017A number of members of chambers regularly sit as arbitrators. Decisions of arbitral panels are rarely made public but an exception was the recent decision of a Commission, established pursuant to the rules of the Premier League, which has attracted interest among football clubs and fans concerning the rules requiring clubs to offer concessionary prices […]
Premier League Commission8 August 2017A number of members of chambers regularly sit as arbitrators. Decisions of arbitral panels are rarely made public but an exception was the recent decision of a Commission, established pursuant to the rules of the Premier League, which has attracted interest among football clubs and fans concerning the rules requiring clubs to offer concessionary prices […]
The London Taxi Corporation Ltd (t/a The London Taxi Company) v Fraser-Nash Research Ltd (2) Ecotive Ltd20 July 2017Mark Platts-Mills QC and Maxwell Keay appeared for the Respondents, Frazer-Nash Research Limited and Ecotive Limited, in this appeal by the Appellant, the London Taxi Corporation, against the Judgment of Arnold J, [2016] EWHC 52 (Ch). This case concerned the Appellant’s trade marks for the shape of London taxis. The Appellant alleged that the Respondents’ […]