British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd v Armstrong Patents Company Ltd

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Scarman,Lord Edmund-Davies,Lord Bridge of Harwich,Lord Templeman,Lord Griffiths
Judgment Date27 February 1986
Judgment citation (vLex)[1986] UKHL J0227-1
Date27 February 1986
CourtHouse of Lords
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    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2012, December 2012
    • 1 December 2012
    ...affected the supply of spare parts for motor cars) in British Leyland Motor Corp Ltd v Armstrong Patents Co Ltd (“British Leyland”) [1986] AC 577: “It is of course a strong thing (not to say constitutionally questionable) for a judicially declared head of public policy to be treated as over......
  • Abandonment, copyright and orphaned works: what does it mean to take the proprietary nature of intellectual property rights seriously?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 35 No. 3, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...their Lordships did not comment on this aspect of the appellant's case: British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd v Armstrong Patents Co Ltd [1986] 1 AC 577. (73) Bundesgerichtshof [German Federal Court of Justice], I ZR 68/93, 23 February 1995 reported in (1995) 129 BGHZ 66. We have used the E......
  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN SINGAPORE: A GENERAL OVERVIEW1
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1992, December 1992
    • 1 December 1992
    ...the above where the storage of the work in the computer is essential to the use of the program in the computer. 108 [1986] R.P.C. 279; [1986] 2 W.L.R. 400. 109 See Mono Pumps (N.Z.) Ltd. v. Karinya Industrial Ltd. (1986) 7 I.P.R. 25 where the New Zealand court refused to follow the British ......
  • CHARACTER MERCHANDISING UNDER THE COPYRIGHT AND REGISTERED DESIGNS LAWS OF SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1996, December 1996
    • 1 December 1996
    ...designs can perhaps at least partially account for the House of Lords decision in British Leyland Motor Co v Armstrong Patents Ltd[1986] 2 WLR 400. 114 Defined in section 70(2). 115 See Wei, supra, note 25, at 179—180. 116 In section 1(4) of the RDA, newness can be determined by whether or ......
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