Interlego A.G. v Tyco Industries Inc.

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1988
Date1988
Year1988
CourtPrivy Council
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78 cases
  • Sawkins v Hyperion Records Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • May 19, 2005
    ...call for effort, skill and judgment, but it did not transform a copy of a work into an original work attracting a fresh copyright: Interlego v. Tyco [1988] RPC 343 at 370, 371 per Lord Oliver (a case of artistic copyright). The Judicial Committee approved the test laid down in Blacks v. Mur......
  • Real Electronics Industries Singapore (Pte) Ltd v Nimrod Engineering Pte Ltd (T Vimalanathan, Third Party)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • December 2, 1995
    ...that the work must not be copied from another work - that it should originate from the author. ... In Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc [1988] 3 WLR 678; [1988] 3 All ER 949, the Privy Council (per Lord Oliver) considered the foregoing statement by Peterson J and observed at p 703B [[1988]......
  • Sebel Furniture Ltd v Tiong Hin Engineering Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • October 22, 1998
    ...(1931) 48 RPC 268 (folld) Ibcos Computers v Barclays Mercantile Highland Finance [1994] FSR 275 (refd) Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc [1988] RPC 343 (folld) LB (Plastics) v Swish Products [1979] RPC 551 (refd) Sommer Allibert (UK) v Flair Plastics [1987] RPC 599 (folld) Valor Heating Co......
  • Uni-Continental Holdings Ltd and Another v Eurobond Adhesives Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • Invalid date
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12 books & journal articles
  • A LOOK BACK AT PUBLIC POLICY, THE LEGISLATURE, THE COURTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COPYRIGHT LAW IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2012, December 2012
    • December 1, 2012
    ...retouched photograph itself an original work? Is a restored piece of artwork original? See generally Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc[1988] 3 All ER 949 and Burton Ong, “Originality from Copying: Fitting Recreative Works into the Copyright Universe”[2010] IPQ 165. 105 Walter v Lane [1900]......
  • THE BASIS FOR ORIGINALITY IN PHOTOGRAPHS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • December 1, 2020
    ...AC 329 at 335; Ladbroke (Football) Ltd v William Hill (Football) Ltd [1964] 1 WLR 273 at 279 and 282; Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc [1989] AC 217 at 261; see also Copinger and Skone James on Copyright vol 1 (Gillian Davies, Nicholas Caddick & Gwilym Harbottle eds) (Sweet & Maxwell, 17t......
  • Scanning Cultural Heritage: The Implications for Intellectual Property and Cultural Institutions.
    • United Kingdom
    • Art Antiquity & Law Vol. 25 No. 1, April 2020
    • April 1, 2020
    ...(124) Ladbroke (Football) Ltd v. William Hill (Football) Ltd [1964] 1WLR 273 (HL) 285-287. (125) Interlego AG v. Tyco Industries Inc [1989] AC 217 (126) Walter v. Lane, above, note 123. (127) Macmillan v. Cooper (1924) 40 TLR 186 (PC) 188; Garnett, above, note 3, 233. (128) Sawkins, above, ......
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2005, December 2005
    • December 1, 2005
    ...raw materials from which it is derived. This principle has been followed in other English cases such as Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc[1989] AC 217 (‘Interlego’). Interlego elaborated on this principle in the following manner (at 263): There must in addition be some element of material ......
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