Albert Packaging Ltd v Nampak Cartons & Healthcare Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Neutral Citation[2011] EWPCC 15
Year2011
Date2011
CourtPatents County Court
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4 cases
  • Kohler Mira Ltd v Bristan Group Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Patents County Court
    • 28 January 2013
    ...question at the time of its creation. 67 I attempted to summarise some aspects of the law relating to s213 in Albert Packaging v Nampak [2011] EWPCC 15 and the Court of Appeal (Lord Neuberger MR) dismissed an application for permission to appeal from that judgment at [2012] EWCA Civ 143. ......
  • Utopia Tableware Ltd v BBP Marketing Ltd and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
    • 12 November 2013
    ...v Magnet [2002] FSR 10 at [32], and Lambretta v Teddy Smith [2005] RPC 6. All of these cases were reviewed by HHJ Birss QC in Albert Packaging v Nampak [2011] FSR at [27]-[31] and I shall apply the principles set out therein. Analysis 58 The first issue to decide is the identification of ......
  • Sealed Air Ltd v Sharp Interpack Ltd and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Patents County Court
    • 30 May 2013
    ...in question at the time of its creation. 80 Ms Edwards-Stuart referred to my summary of some aspects of the law relating to s213 in Albert Packaging v Nampak [2011] EWPCC 15 (the Court of Appeal (Lord Neuberger MR) dismissed an application for permission to appeal from that judgment at [20......
  • Neptune (Europe) Ltd v Devol Kitchens Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 25 August 2017
    ...Machinery [2008] EWHC 989 (Pat) at [79] per Mann J. The point was succinctly expressed by HHJ Birss (as he then was) in Albert Packaging v Nampak Cartons & Healthcare Ltd [2011] EWPCC 15; 2011 FSR 32 at [18]: "Mr Delaney submitted that although designs that serve purely functional purposes ......
3 firm's commentaries
  • IP Bulletin - Summer 2011
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 17 August 2011
    ...DESIGNS Patents County Court – unregistered design right Albert Packaging Ltd and others v Nampak Cartons & Healthcare Ltd, [2011] EWPCC 15, HHJ Birss QC, 2 June The Patents County Court has held that the claimants had design right in the shape of their carton, but that it had not been ......
  • European IP Bulletin, Issue 82, July 2011
    • European Union
    • Mondaq European Union
    • 5 August 2011
    ...the Creative Process is Key to Overcoming an Inference of Copying In Albert Packaging Ltd and others v Nampak Cartons and Healthcare ltd [2011] EWPCC 15, although there was an inference that the Claimants' unregistered design had been a consideration in the Defendant's creative process, the......
  • IP Snapshot June 2011
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 28 June 2011
    ...to these definitions. For our Law Now of the decision, click here Albert Packaging Ltd and others v Nampak Cartons & Healthcare Ltd [2011] EWPCC 15, 2 June This was an action for infringement of unregistered design right (UDR). The Patents County Court found that UDR subsisted in the Cl......

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