Intellectual Property Law in UK Law
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Seager v Copydex Ltd
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It depends on the broad principle of equity that he who has received information in confidence shall not take unfair advantage of it. He must not make use of it to the prejudice of him who gave it without obtaining his consent. He should go to the public source and get it: or, at any rate, not be in a better position than if he had gone to the public source. He should not get a start over others by using the information which he received in confidence.
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C.B.S. Songs Ltd v Amstrad Consumer Electronics Plc
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My Lords, I accept that a defendant who procures a breach of copyright is liable jointly and severally with the infringer for the damages suffered by the plaintiff as a result of the infringement. The defendant is a joint infringer; he intends and procures and shares a common design that infringement shall take place. A defendant may procure an infringement by inducement, incitement or persuasion.
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Sabaf SpA v MFI Furniture Centres Ltd
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The underlying concept for joint tortfeasance must be that the joint tortfeasor has been so involved in the commission of the tort as to make himself liable for the tort. Unless he has made the infringing act his own, he has not himself committed the tort. If there is a common design or concerted action or otherwise a combination to secure the doing of the infringing acts, then each of the combiners has made the act his own and will be liable.
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Biogen Inc. v Medeva Plc
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His expressed findings are always surrounded by a penumbra of imprecision as to emphasis, relative weight, minor qualification and nuance ( as Renan said, la v�rit� est dans une nuance), of which time and language do not permit exact expression, but which may play an important part in the judge's overall evaluation.
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OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
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There is in my opinion no question of creating an "image right" or any other unorthodox form of intellectual property. The information in this case was capable of being protected, not because it concerned the Douglases' image any more than because it concerned their private life, but simply because it was information of commercial value over which the Douglases had sufficient control to enable them to impose an obligation of confidence.
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Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth
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There are no issues of policy which militate against the enforcement of foreign copyright. States have an interest in the international recognition and enforcement of their copyrights, as the Berne Convention on the International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works shows.
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Griggs Group Ltd v Evans
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On the other hand, in one sense it has always been possible to call into question both the validity and the scope of a foreign intellectual property right. For instance, where the defendant has agreed to pay royalties to the claimant on any product covered by a valid claim of a foreign patent and the agreement is governed by English law and confers jurisdiction upon the English courts.
- Intellectual Property Act 2014
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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
... ... 1: Copyright and copyright works ... (1) Copyright is a property right which subsists in accordance with this Part in the following ... of the database the database constitutes the author’s own intellectual creation ... Annotations: Amendments (Textual) # F7 S. 3A inserted ... ...
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Corporation Tax Act 2009
... ... Act that do so being—(a) Part 3 (trading income) ,(b) Part 4 (property income) ,(c) Parts 5 and 6 (profits arising from loan relationships) ,(d) ... section 371KJ—(a) in subsection (2) (a) , the reference to intellectual property held by the CFC is to be read as a reference to intellectual ... ...
- The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
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Breadth of Coverage for Intellectual Property Law. ENCOURAGING PRODUCT INNOVATION BY BROADENING PROTECTION
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- Book Review: Intellectual Property Law in Australia
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Does a Rose by any Other Name Smell as Sweet? A Discussion of Whether Perfume can be Protected under Intellectual Property Law from Smell-a- Likes, and Whether it Should be?
Currently there is no model of protection. English intellectual property law should protect perfume. Patents offer monopoly protection, and trade marks can be renewed indefinitely, making them the ...
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Computers and the Law: The Protection of Intellectual Property
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Provide supplemental information when making or responding to allegations of harm and domestic violence
Standard directions forms under the Children Act.... ... “Development” means physical, intellectual, emotional, social or behavioural development ... “Health” means ... Occupation order – sets out who can live in a ... property and can exclude a person totally from the ... property or prohibit a ... ...