Copyright & Design Rights

Our Copyright & Design Rights Work

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• Middle East
• UK & Europe

• Copyright in boat fenders

  Defending an Australian client against an allegation by a UK company of infringement of copyright in the design of fenders for pilot boats. 

  Copyright in integrated chips for vocoders

  Acting for a US-based client in asserting copyright, trade mark and patent rights in plug-and-play devices (with integrated chips) for voice recording and synthesis against counterfeit devices being distributed in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.

  Copyright issues arising from the monitoring of television viewing

  Advising our client on potential issues of copyright infringement arising from its software for analysing the viewing habits of tv and video-on-demand customers.

  Design dispute concerning jewellery

  Defending our client from allegations of infringement of two EU registered designs for jewellery, as well as passing off, brought by a well-known US fashion house by demonstrating that the designs were invalid as giving the same overall impression as articles that were well-known at their filing date.

  Design dispute concerning plastic containers

  We defended a leading UK manufacturer and supplier to supermarkets of containers for ready-meals against allegations of infringement of multiple unregistered design rights and countered explaining the independent derivation of the designs from commonplace household articles. 

  Protection of copyright and designs in online gambling software

  Advising an Asian-Pacific gaming company, with new UK subsidiary, on protecting its copyright in the software for new games (and registering those rights) and protecting various character icons through trade marks as well as unregistered designs.  We also advised on the patentability of its new gaming concepts.

  Advising a global food manufacturer on copyright issues

  Advising a global manufacturer of food products on copyright, trade mark, registered design issues both globally and across the region.

  Copyright ownership for a leading non-profit organisation

  Advising a leading non-profit organisation on the ownership of copyright and other IP in works generated by employees, consultants, and contractors, in addition to counseling clients on joint copyright ownership and commercialisation issues and preparing related contractual agreements.

  Multi-jurisdictional copyright advice for a web services provider

  Counselling a leading web services provider on local copyright right law and practice in relation to the introduction of novel web-based services and content in multiple jurisdictions in the MENA region.

  National content digitisation project advice

  Counselling a Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) entity on a national content digitisation project and implications under local and international copyright law.
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• Filing strategy advice for a government funded research centre

  Providing a leading computing research centre funded by the government of a GCC state (one of the largest producers of patentable technology in the region) with strategic advice on filing strategy and working with the client and its team of researchers and inventors to file over 50 PCT applications.

  United Arab Emirates

  US patent protection for a non-profit organisation

  Advising a leading GCC non-profit organisation in relation to patent protection in the United States and the filing of US utility and provisional patent applications.

  United Arab Emirates

  Revolutionary seating concept patent for an international airline

  Advising a major GCC airline on IP ownership dispute over the design and patents of a revolutionary seating concept. Preparing new patent filing strategies and advising on related freedom to operate searches. Undertaking IP due diligence and advising on commercialisation of IP.

  United Arab Emirates

  Offshore pipeline patent and technology licensing

  Advising on patent and technology licensing advice in relation to offshore pipelines including drafting and negotiating IP licences, supply and manufacturing agreements, and advising on an NDA regime with third party suppliers.

  United Arab Emirates

• Patent dispute in the construction industry

  Advising a UK company on the infringement and validity of its patent related to concrete laying in a long-running dispute with a would-be competitor, including a limitation request in the EPO to strengthen its validity and obtaining a UK Patent Office opinion on the validity and infringement issues.

  United Kingdom

  Appeal from Patent Office’s refusal of a business method patent

  Conducting an appeal to the Patents Court from the UK Patent Office’s decision to refuse a patent application for placing trades at multiple stock exchanges simultaneously as being a method of doing business and/or being for a computer programme as such and so excluded from patent protection.

  United Kingdom

  Trade secrets and entitlement dispute concerning telecommunications equipment

  Defending an action for breach of confidence, breach of contract, copyright infringement and patent entitlement brought against our client relating to analogue electronic devices used in fibre optic telecommunications networks.

  United Kingdom

  Patent dispute relating to second medical use patents

  Advising our client on the validity and infringement of a series of patents for a blockbuster cancer medicine and the issues surrounding “skinny-label” generic versions

  United Kingdom

  Patent entitlement action relating to super-resolution microscopes

  Acting for a university spin-out in a Patents Court action with issues including inventorship and ownership of a number of patent families, as well as the operating software, for a nanoscale resolution microscope.

  United Kingdom

  Entitlement claim to patents concerning vanadium redox batteries

  Bringing an action in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court for entitlement to four patents on vanadium battery technology that our client claimed entitlement to following the breakdown of his informal partnership with the inventor.

  United Kingdom

  Conducting series of patent actions relating to prenatal genetic tests

  Representing our clients in a long running patent infringement dispute, with revocation counterclaims, in the Patents Court relating to prenatal tests for foetal abnormalities such Downs syndrome.  Also advising on a related procurement dispute and judicial review.

  United Kingdom

  Defending validity of patent relating to nappy manufacture

  Defending the validity of a patent relating to ultrasonic bonding in the manufacture of nappies and other disposable absorbent garments in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court and Court of Appeal.

  United Kingdom

  Defending validity of patent relating to nappy manufacture

  Defending the validity of a patent relating to ultrasonic bonding in the manufacture of nappies and disposable absorbent garments in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court

  United Kingdom