VC Company to pay £2 million in damages for breach of Confidentiality Agreement
The English High Court recently ordered a venture capital company to pay more than £2 million in damages for exploiting...
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Posted on Sat, 1 Jan 2011
Insight Case Reports
Periodically we produce and send out short reports we call Insight Reports on notable legal decisions affecting IP or significant legal developments.
Some of our recent reports are available below. Additional links are provided where reports we have written have been published in legal journals.
Recent reports...
Ambiguities in Oxonica Licence result in additional royalty payments
The Court of Appeal was recently called on to interpret the meaning of a patent and know-how licence between Oxonica Ene...
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Posted on Sun, 1 Nov 2009
Oxonica Licence described as an 'appalling drafted document' by Court of Appeal Judge
The Court of Appeal was recently called in to interpret the meaning of a patent and know-how licence between Oxonica Ene...
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Posted on Thu, 1 Oct 2009
Court orders injuction against ex-employee for stealing confidential information
In the latest of what has become a string of High Court cases brought by employers against former employees (and directo...
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Posted on Tue, 1 Sep 2009
Defective assignment contributes to patent invalidity
In an infringement case before the English High Court a granted patent based on an international patent application, tha...
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Posted on Mon, 2 Feb 2009
£1.5 Million Court award: a 'fair share' for employee inventors or a lottery win?
In a landmark judgment, the English High Court has awarded two research scientists lump sum payments totalling £1....
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Posted on Thu, 1 Jan 2009