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Many businesses rely heavily on intangible assets such as client and customer relationships, market reputation, confidential plans, accumulated knowledge, genuine secrets and intellectual property
Unlike the music, film and computer games industries, the computer software sector has been comparatively slow to embrace the criminal provisions of the UK copyright legislation
In a case which will be of interest to software providers and developers, RxWorks, a provider of veterinary software sought and successfully obtained judgment without a full trial for its claim for groundless threats of trade mark infringement made against a Dr Paul Hunter
Technology companies, mindful of the value of their intellectual property portfolios, should re-consider the issue of software patents in light of new UK Intellectual Property Office guidance and recent cases involving Research In Motion (RIM) and Symbian
