British Northrop Ltd v Texteam Blackburn Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1973 |
| Year | 1973 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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- Mandarin Video Holdings Sdn Bhd; Television Broadcasts Ltd and Others
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Re AUVI Trademark
...appear to show that simplicity per se does not prevent a work from acquiring copyright: see British Northrop Ltd v Texteam Blackburn Lt d [1974] RPC 57 and KARO STEP Trade Mark [1977] RPC 255 Even drawings of things in common use such as engines and gear boxes are copyrightable: see Nichols......
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House of Spring Gardens Ltd v Point Blank Ltd
...Company Ltd. (1955) [1955] A.C. 370 36 My Kinda Town Ltd. v. Soll [1983] R.P.C. 15. 37 British Northrop v. Texteam (Blackburn) Ltd. [1974] R.P.C. 57. 38 Ladbroke (Football) Ltd. v. William Hill (Football) Ltd. [1964] 1 W.L.R. 273. 39 Solar Thompson Engineering Co. Ltd. v. Barton [1977] R.P.......
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CHARACTER MERCHANDISING UNDER THE COPYRIGHT AND REGISTERED DESIGNS LAWS OF SINGAPORE
...75 This resembles the position where simple drawings which enjoy artistic copyright is concerned: see, e.g., British Northrop v Texteam[1974] RPC 57, Kenrick v Lawrence(1890) 25 QBD 99. The importance of the quantity taken in such cases may be an illustration of the idea/expression dichotom......