Data in UK Law

  • Youview TV Ltd v Total Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 09 November 2012
    ... ... "computer software, including software for use in downloading, storing, reproducing and organising audio, video, still and moving images and data in compressed and uncompressed form" ... 17 As the added underlining shows, there was plain identity between ... ...
  • Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 October 2008
    ... ... 5 2. The Application is entitled “Mapping dynamic link libraries in a computing device”. It concerns a method of accessing data in a dynamic link library in a computing device. The alleged invention is pithily explained by Mr Peter Prescott QC and Ms Charlotte May, in their ... ...
  • AT&T Knowledge Ventures & CVON Innovations v The Comptroller General General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 03 March 2009
    ... ... that the invention is concerned with the internal workings of the processors and the transmission equipment irrespective of the nature of the data and the way in which a particular application program operates on the data files. In so far the proposed control program is comparable to the ... ...
  • R (JF and Another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Supreme Court
    • 21 April 2010
    ... ... Certainly, the retention of data for so long a period could be problematic in terms of Article 8 of the Convention, but the Court notes that the Applicant has in any case the ... ...
  • CFPH LLC's Applications
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 21 July 2005
    ... ... 71 In that case someone tried to patent a data processing system for making a trading market in securities. Put shortly, it was remarkably like a conventional securities market except that it was ... ...
  • Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner (Scotland)
    • House of Lords
    • 09 July 2008
    ... ... 2 This case raises important questions about the interaction between provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 (" DPA 1998") on the one hand and provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 ("FOISA 2002") on the other. The ... ...
  • R (GC) and Another v Commissioner of Police of The Metropolis
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 May 2011
    ... ... MAJORITY JUDGMENTS ON THE APPROPRIATE RELIEF ... LORD DYSON ... 1 Biometric data such as DNA samples, DNA profiles and fingerprints is of enormous value in the detection of crime. It sometimes enables the police to solve crimes of ... ...
  • Research in Motion UK Ltd v (1) Inpro Licensing SARL and T-Mobile (UK) Ltd
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 02 February 2006
    ... ... protocol or TCP, and the user datagram protocol or UDP, which 'sit on top of' IP and provide the programmer with a means of sending a packet of data from a source to a destination. TCP/IP provides a so-called reliable service, in which the recipient can require packets to be retransmitted, and can ... ...
  • BSkyB Ltd and Another v HP Enterprise Services UK Ltd and Another
    • Queen's Bench Division (Technology and Construction Court)
    • 26 January 2010
    ... ... (2) Sky Subscribers Services Limited Claimants and (1) HP Enterprise Services UK Limited (formerly Electronic Data systems Limited) (2) Electronic Data Systems LLC (Formerly Electronic Data Systems Corporation Defendants [2010] ... ...
  • WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc v Various Claimants
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 October 2018
    ... ... has been misused by being disclosed on the web by the criminal act of another employee, who had a grudge against the employer, in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the DPA ”) and in breach of that employee's obligation of confidence ... 2 It is an appeal from the order of ... ...
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