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Scottish courts boost IP case management powers

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 6 2012

The Rules of the Court of Session contain tailored rules for specific types of action

Sharing knowledge and expertise - a memorandum of understanding between the Intellectual Property Office and the Office of Fair Trading

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 28 2012

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) published on 12 July 2012

Intellectual property news round-up August 2012

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 28 2012

In this round-up of recent IP law news, we report on newly published guidance on the practical use of the Patent Box, the continuing battle between Samsung and Apple, unlawful advertising at the Olympics and the use of domain name opticalexpressruinedmylife.co.uk

Games (and songs) without frontiers

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • March 16 2012

The Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) was a United States bill introduced to extend the reach of U.S. law to combat online trafficking of intellectual property and counterfeit goods outside U.S. jurisdiction

Privilege in IP litigation

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 20 2011

A recent spate of cases before the UK and European Courts re-considering the scope of privilege are of interest to businesses with valuable IP rights

The High Court allows BT and Talk Talk to have their say on the Digitial Economy Act 2010

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 20 2011

The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has extended the deadline for written submissions to its inquiry into the protection of intellectual property rights online until 23 March 2011 following the decision of the High Court to allow BT and Talk Talk to apply for judicial review of certain parts of the Digital Economy Act 2010 (the Act

The Man in the White Suit was “too easy to find”, Morgan J decides

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 18 2010

A recent Chancery Division case has held that the identity of popular television character "The Stig" was too easy to find and as such refused to grant an interim injunction to prevent the publication of an autobiography by Ben Collins entitled "The Man in the White Suit" which threatened to reveal that Ben Collins was, in fact, The Stig

UEFA broadcasting case kicked to the ECJ

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 5 2010

A second case relating to football bodies protecting their exclusive rights to broadcast football games to subscribers in individual EU countries against the use of foreign satellite decoder cards, has been referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by the High Court

Digital Economy Act 2010 tries to tackle tangled infringement web

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2010

The Digital Economy Act 2010 (the Act), enacted April 8 2010, imbues the Secretary of State and (by extension) the Office of Communications (Ofcom) with new powers to regulate and intervene in several areas regarding digital media

"I don't really know what it does but it looks useful" Court of Appeal rejects patent on grounds of lack of industrial use

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2010

The Court of Appeal recently considered the scope of patentability under the European Patent Convention (EPC) in Eli Lilly and Company v Human Genome Sciences Inc