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Intellectual Property
5RB provides intellectual property expertise. We provide a structure for focussed, integrated and flexible intellectual property services to clients, drawing on the wealth of wider media and entertainment experience already in chambers. We also provide intellectual property services outside the media context.
The core areas of work undertaken include copyright, breach of confidence, passing off, contractual disputes, advertising, the Data Protection Act 1998, performers' rights and moral rights. Other work undertaken includes trade mark work outside the sphere of comparative advertising, database right, design right and telecommunications/broadcasting regulation.
5 recent Intellectual Property cases
Google France, Google Inc. v Louis Vuitton Malletier
C‑236/08
Far Out Productions Inc v Water Music Productions Ltd & Ors
16 December 2009
FA Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure & Ors
[2008] EWHC 1411 (Ch)
Patel v Allos Therapeutics Inc
Claim no. HC07C01730
O2 Holdings Ltd & Anor v Hutchison 3G UK Ltd (ECJ)
Case C-533/06; [2008] WLR (D) 193