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Polydor & Ors v Brown & Ors
Copyright - Making available - ss.16(1)(d) & 20 Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Internet - Music - File-sharing - Peer-to-peer software - Ignorance of distribution - Summary judgment - Real prospect of success
Brown v Mcasso Music Productions Ltd
Costs - Discretion - Part 36 Offers - Refusal to Negotiate - Copyright - Appeal from Patents County Court
Taylor v Rive Droit Music Ltd
Music law - Contract - Music publishing agreement - Contradictory and inconsistent terms - Duration of agreement - Infringement - Meaning of 'composition' - Implied terms - Positive and negative obligations - Unlawful interference with goods - Allegations of dishonesty
Synthon BV v SmithKline Beecham plc
Patents – Enabling disclosure – Novelty – State of the art – Patent invalid by reason of prior disclosure which, if performed, would infringe the patent – Anti-depressants – Crystalline form – Patents Act 1977, ss. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 14
Global Projects Management Ltd & Anor v Citigroup Inc & Ors
Domain Names – Infringement – Passing off - Trade marks – Maintenance of Domain an Instrument of Fraud – Cybersquatting - ss.10(3) and 21 Trade Marks Act 1994 – Summary Judgment
Clearsprings Management Ltd v Businesslinx Ltd
Copyright - Assignment - Databases - Equitable ownership - Implied licences - Implied terms - Source codes
GMG Radio Holdings v Tokyo Project Ltd
Passing off - Confusion - Artwork - Get-up - Injunction - Serious issue for trial - Balance of justice - Damages adequate remedy
Daikin Europe N.V. v Daikin International Ltd
Company Names - Passing Off - Trade Marks - John Doe orders
Wistbray Ltd v Creative Nature Ltd
Trade marks - Infringement - s.10(2)(b) Trade Marks Act 1994 - Summary judgment - Similarity between word mark and pictorial sign - Likelihood of confusion
Laboratoires Goëmar SA v La Mer Technology Inc
Trade marks - Genuine use - Non-use - Revocation - Importation - Internal use - s.46 Trade Marks Act 1994
Sales v Stromberg & others
Unregistered designs – Breach of Confidence – Passing Off – Designs Based on Simple Geometric Shapes – Originality Test –s.213(4) Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988
London General Holdings v USP Holdings plc
Copyright - Breach of Confidence - Causation of Damage - Assessment of Reasonable Notional Royalty
British Horse Racing Board v William Hill Organization Ltd
Database rights - Meaning of substantial investment in obtaining verification or presentation of contents of database - Sport - Horseracing
Société des produits Nestlé SA v Mars UK Ltd
Trade marks – Directive 89/104/EEC – Absence of distinctive character – Distinctive character acquired through use – Use as part of or in conjunction with a registered trade mark
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc v Grokster Ltd
USA - Copyright Infringement - Peer-to Peer Software - Liability for Third Parties' Infringement
Hyperion Records Ltd v Sawkins
Copyright - Musical works - Performing editions of non-copyright works - Subsistence of copyright - "Original" - "Musical" - s.3 CDPA 1988 - Infringement of copyright - Moral rights - Right to be identified as author - s.77 CDPA 1988
Fraser-Woodward Ltd v BBC & Brighter Pictures Ltd
Copyright - Photographs - Fair dealing - Criticism and Review - Sufficient Acknowledgement - Incidental Inclusion
Experience Hendrix LLC v Purple Haze Records Ltd & Others
Copyright - CDPA 1988, ss.181, 206 - 'Qualifying performance' - Retrospective legislation - Rights of co-performers - Contractual assignment of rights - 'Controlling mind' of a company
IPC Media Ltd v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Copyright - Comparative advertising - Comparative Advertising Directive - Fair dealing for purpose of criticism or review - s.30(1) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - Fair dealing for the purpose of reporting current events - s. 30(2) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988