Alleged file-sharers face crackdown from Ministry of Sound
The Ministry of Sound has sent 2,000 letters out to people who it alleges have unlawfully infringed its copyright by downloading or uploading its tracks without permission. The letters ask for...
View ArticleIntellectual Property Office website struck down by Operation Payback
The website of The Intellectual Property Office was down for a whole day, after it suffered a denial of service attack at the hands of Operation Payback. Operation Payback is an anonymous group...
View ArticleApple sues Motorola for patent infringement
Apple has filed a claim accusing Motorola of patent infringement in the use of software relating to display tools, including touch screens. The claim has been filed in the US District Court of...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Motorola in spat over patents and technical standards
Microsoft and Motorola have gone to court over a breakdown in their relationship over use of Motorola’s patented products. They had been working together to use Motorola’s patents to create technical...
View ArticleMicrosoft founder fails in infringement lawsuit
Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates, has failed in his claim that a number of household names, including Facebook and Google, had infringed patents registered by his firm Interval...
View ArticleNokia takes another bite at the Apple
Nokia has filed court proceedings against Apple in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, alleging that Apple has infringed Nokia patents in a number of products sold in those countries. Nokia filed...
View ArticlePicture not so perfect – Shutterfly and Kodak accuse each other of patent...
Kodak has filed proceedings against Shutterfly, the photo-sharing website, with the Securities Exchange Commission in the United States for the alleged infringement of its patents. In return,...
View ArticleSit back and…go to trial – Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Delta Airways Inc,...
The Court of Appeal rejected a ruling of the High Court that had granted summary judgment to Delta Airways Inc (“Delta”) in relation to an action brought by Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd (“Virgin”)....
View ArticleCompany gets injunctive protection from prickly director – Hedgehog Golf Co...
Hedgehog applied to the High Court for a perpetual injunction preventing its former director, FH, from disclosing confidential information about Hedgehog and its business. The business involved the...
View ArticleYou’ve lost your bottle – Schütz (UK) Ltd v Werit UK Ltd, Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a patent holder where the High Court had previously ruled that, where part of a patented product had been replaced, there had been no infringement of the...
View ArticleEpson issues proceedings to protect patents
Epson, the print cartridge manufacturer, has issued proceedings in the High Court against Dynamic Cassette (DC) for alleged infringement of its patents relating to its printer ink cartridges. DC...
View ArticleEuropean Commission updates counterfeit goods regulation to help rights...
The European Commission has published a proposed Regulation regarding the customs enforcement of intellectual property rights. If implemented, the Regulation would update the Counterfeit Goods...
View ArticleNokia and Apple ring the same tone and settle at last
Nokia filed several proceedings last year against Apple for patent infringements, with the dispute growing as Apple countersued (as can be seen here and here), but the two technology companies have...
View ArticleIntellectual Property Office consults on Bolar patent exceptions
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has started a consultation to investigate concerns over the Bolar exemption under section 60(5)(i) of the Patents Act 1977, which allows the performance of...
View ArticleNokia infringing 3G patent, but does it matter? – Nokia v IPCom, High Court
The High Court has ruled that certain unspecified 3G Nokia phones infringe a patent registered by IPCom, the German company. The patent, which allows emergency and security services to get prioritised...
View ArticleApple in another patent dispute, this time with HTC
Apple has filed a complaint with the US’s International Trade Commission against HTC, its fellow phone and tablet PC manufacturer, for the alleged infringement of patents by unspecified HTC devices....
View ArticleAmazon ‘one-click’ not granted patent
The European Patent Office (EPO) has upheld a decision of the EPO’s Examining Division that Amazon’s ‘one-click’ system for purchasing a product on its website, whereby customers can pay for a product...
View ArticleSamsung seeks injunction to stop Apple iPhone 4S in four countries as Samsung...
Samsung’s and Apple’s patent tit-for-tat spat continues apace, with Samsung seeking injunctions in Australia, France, Italy and Japan to stop Apple’s sales of the iPhone 4S. Samsung has recently...
View ArticleAnother appeal against exclusion from patentability allowed by the High Court...
Following the decision of the High Court in Halliburton, the High Court has now allowed an appeal against the decision of an Intellectual Property Office (IPO) hearing officer that had prevented the...
View Article“The Patent Cliff – Lipitor goes over the Edge”
As the largest ever number of patents protecting the pharmaceutical industry’s most profitable “blockbuster” drugs are set to expire, for India and China it’s going to be a very merry Christmas and an...
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