Design in UK Law

  • Oakley Inc. v Animal Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Octubre 2005
    ... ... If the 1949 Act applied without any amendment by the 2001 Regulations, that Registered Design was thus invalid. If the 2001 Regulations applied including Regulation 12, since that would maintain in force the 1949 Act the Registered Design was ... ...
  • Universal City Studios Inc. v Hubbard
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 1983
    ... ... (5) In this section — "intellectual property" means any patent, trade mark, copyright, registered design, technical or commercial information or other intellectual property; "related offence", in relation to any proceedings to which subsection ... ...
  • Dorling v Honnor Marine Ltd
    • Court of Appeal
    • 13 Diciembre 1963
    ... ... below there were two actions in one of which the appellant sued both the respondent and the personal defendant for breach of copyright in the design of the dinghy and in the other of which the personal defendant was the plaintiff and sued the appellant for money arising out of transactions between ... ...
  • Matsushita Electric Industrial Company v Comptroller-General of Patents
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 16 Julio 2008
    ... ... Commerciality required it and this was recognised in United States law and practice, and indeed in United Kingdom design right practice ... 37 17. Mr. Tappin, who appears for the Comptroller, supported the hearing officer's decision, essentially for the reasons given ... ...
  • Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 Julio 2011
    ... ... It was an enormous commercial success. It won an Oscar for best costume design. This appeal is concerned with intellectual property rights in various artefacts made for use in the film. The most important of these was the ... ...
  • British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd v Armstrong Patents Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Febrero 1986
    ... ... These objects in themselves do not attract copyright protection; nor are they patentable, since they embody no new invention, and their design is not registrable under the registered designs legislation since they have no "eye appeal." Thus there has arisen the anomaly that in effect (though ... ...
  • King Features Syndicate Inc. v Kleeman (O. & M.) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Mayo 1941
    ... ... " "(2) General rules under Section 86 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, may be made for determining the conditions under which a design shall be deemed to be used for such purposes as aforesaid." ... 10 It should here be mentioned that the vital question ... ...
  • Amp Inc. v Utilux Pty. Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Octubre 1971
    ... ... Then it occurred to them that the design of this new terminal could be registered under the Registered Designs Act 1949, so they had it registered in 1960. In 1966 one of their ... ...
  • Re Halliburton Energy Services Inc.'s Patent Applications
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 05 Octubre 2011
    ... ... The invention is concerned with improving the design of roller cone drill bits for drilling oil wells (and the like). The point is to increase their drilling efficiency and their operational life. The ... ...
  • Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd v Apple Inc. (No 2)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 Octubre 2012
    ... ... ) , Judge Birss held that three Samsung Galaxy tablet computers, the 10.1, the 8.9 and the 7.7 did not infringe Apple's registered Community Design No. 000181607–0001. By the second, of 18 th July 2012, [2012] EWHC 2049 (Pat) , he held that Apple should be compelled to publicise the fact ... ...
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