Results: 149

• Schütz (UK) Ltd v Werit UK Ltd (No 1)

  31 Mar 2010 [2010] EWHC 660 (Pat); [2010] Bus LR 1244, Ch D (Floyd J)

  29 Mar 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 303; [2011] Bus LR 1510; [2011] WLR (D) 115, CA

  13 Mar 2013 [2013] UKSC 16; [2013] Bus LR 565; [2013] 2 All ER 177; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 10.
  PATENT — Infringement — Making product
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  PATENT — Infringement — Making product — Invention claimed as combination — Whether person who replaces element “makes” patented product — Whether whole inventive concept remaining once element removed — Correct test to be applied — Patents Act 1977, s 60(1)(a)

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

• BBGP Managing General Partner Ltd v Babcock & Brown Global Partners

  20 Aug 2010 [2010] EWHC 2176 (Ch); [2011] Ch 296; [2011] 2 WLR 496; [2011] Bus LR 466; [2011] 2 All ER 297; [2010] WLR (D) 238, Ch D (Norris J)

  Subsequent citations: 16.
  EVIDENCE — Privilege — Legal professional privilege
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  EVIDENCE — Privilege — Legal professional privilege — Investment group establishing defendant limited partnership — Limited partners including second and third claimants — Investment group establishing first claimant to be defendant's general partner and appointing one of its employees as executive director — Dispute arising between defendant and investment group — First claimant's executive director retaining solicitors in relation to dispute — Director in breach of fiduciary duty seeking advice from same solicitors regarding removal of first claimant as general partner — Advice e-mailed to director and stored on investment group's database — First claimant bringing action against defendant following its removal as general partner — Communications to and from solicitor found on investment group's database — Whether communications privileged — Identity of solicitor's clients — Whether use of investment group's e-mail accounts and consequent storage on its database resulting in loss of confidentiality and privilege — Whether defendant entitled to assert privilege against first to third claimants — Whether first claimant entitled to share material with its corporate shareholder — Whether shareholder in turn entitled to share it with its shareholders — Whether defendant's use of director to help secure removal of first claimant engaging iniquity principle — Whether evidence disclosing strong prima facie case of iniquity — Whether defendant losing privilege

  7 Case(s) considered

• Gedeon Richter plc v Bayer Schering Pharma AG

  17 Mar 2011 [2011] EWHC 583 (Pat); [2011] Bus LR D153, Ch D (Floyd J)

  07 Mar 2012 [2012] EWCA Civ 235; [2013] Bus LR D17; [2012] WLR (D) 66, CA

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  PATENT — Revocation — Obviousness
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  PATENT — Revocation — Obviousness — European patent for medical invention — Claim for revocation on ground of obviousness in items of prior art — Guidance as to how to identify inventive step — Whether principle to examine each step of process by skilled person leading to determination on obviousness — Whether steps in process capable of hindering finding of inventiveness

  1 Case considered
• Masefield AG v Amlin Corporate Member Ltd (The Bunga Melati Dua)

  18 Feb 2010 [2010] EWHC 280 (Comm); [2010] 2 All ER 593; [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 1067; [2010] 1 Lloyd's Rep 509; [2010] Lloyd’s Rep IR 345, QBD

  26 Jan 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 24; [2011] 1 WLR 2012; [2011] Bus LR 1082; [2011] 3 All ER 554; [2011] 2 All ER (Comm) 764; [2011] 1 Lloyd's Rep 630; [2011] WLR (D) 23, CA

  12 Jul 2011 (appn dis) [2011] Bus LR 1181, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 6.
  INSURANCE — Marine — Cargo
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  INSURANCE — Marine — Cargo — Ship and cargo seized by pirates — Whether seizure amounting to actual total loss irrespective of prospects of recovery — Whether permissible to take ransom into account when calculating possibility of recovery — Effect of absence of duty to pay ransom — Marine Insurance Act 1906, s 57(1)

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Habibsons Bank Ltd v Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd

  24 Nov 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 1335; [2011] QB 943; [2011] 2 WLR 1165; [2011] Bus LR 692; [2010] WLR (D) 299, CA

  27 May 2011 (appn dis) [2011] 1 WLR 1545; [2011] Bus LR 1060, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  CONTRACT — Validity — Alteration of written instrument
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  CONTRACT — Validity — Alteration of written instrument — Purchase of loan by way of trade confirmation and transfer certificate — Settlement date within transfer certificate altered unilaterally — Whether alteration rendering underlying agreement void

  4 Case(s) considered

• Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL (No 2)

  21 Oct 2010 [2010] EWHC 2640 (Comm), QBD (David Steel J)

  21 Jan 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 21; [2011] Bus LR D108; [2011] WLR (D) 11, CA

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  PRACTICE — Affidavit — Evidence
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  PRACTICE — Affidavit — Evidence — Party obtaining information via inquiry agents in course of contempt proceedings — Party's solicitor issuing affidavit relating to matters of information or belief — Whether deponent required to identify source of such matters — CPR Pt 32 Practice Direction, para 4.2

  1 Case considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Crosstown Music Co 1 LLC v Rive Droite Music Ltd

  02 Nov 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 1222; [2012] Ch 68; [2011] 2 WLR 779; [2011] Bus LR 383; [2010] WLR (D) 277, CA

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  COPYRIGHT — Assignment — Reversion
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  COPYRIGHT — Assignment — Reversion — Songwriters assigning UK and foreign copyrights to claimant's predecessor — Agreements providing for automatic reversion of rights on occurrence of material breaches that had been notified but not remedied — Agreements expressed to be subject to English law and conferring exclusive jurisdiction on English courts — Whether automatic reverter of copyright on unidentified and uncertain future event falling within transmission of copyright permitted by statute — Whether reverter provision taking effect according to its terms — Whether dispute as to reversion of foreign copyrights justiciable in English courts — Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s 90(2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Best Buy Co Inc v Worldwide Sales Corpn España SL

  08 Jul 2010 [2010] EWHC 1666 (Ch); [2010] Bus LR 1761; [2010] FSR 830; [2010] ETMR 974, Ch D (Floyd J)

  24 May 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 618; [2011] Bus LR 1166; [2011] WLR (D) 173, CA

  01 Nov 2011 (appn dis) [2012] Bus LR 140, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 12.
  EVIDENCE — Privilege — “Without prejudice” communications

  TRADE MARK — Infringement — Groundless threat of proceedings
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  EVIDENCE — Privilege — “Without prejudice” communications — Circumstances in which without prejudice communications admissible

  TRADE MARK — Infringement — Groundless threat of proceedings — Statutory provision giving person aggrieved right of action — Claimant contending that letter from proprietor of Community trade mark constituting actionable threat — Proper approach to interpreting letter — Whether letter constituting “threat” — Whether threat to bring proceedings in United Kingdom — Whether directed to acts of infringement excluded by statutory provision — Whether letter protected by without prejudice rule — Whether claimants “person aggrieved” — Trade Marks Act 1994, s 21

  8 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd v Eurosail-UK 2007-3BL plc

  30 Jul 2010 [2010] EWHC 2005 (Ch); [2011] 1 WLR 1200; [2010] Bus LR 1731; [2011] 3 All ER 470; [2010] WLR (D) 223, Ch D

  07 Mar 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 227; [2011] 1 WLR 2524; [2011] Bus LR 1359; [2011] 3 All ER 470; [2011] WLR (D) 73, CA

  09 May 2013 [2013] UKSC 28; [2013] 1 WLR 1408; [2013] Bus LR 715; [2013] 3 All ER 271; [2013] 2 All ER (Comm) 531; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 4 positive. Subsequent citations: 48.
  INSOLVENCY — Winding up — Company's debts
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  INSOLVENCY — Winding up — Company's debts — Company deemed “unable to pay its debts” where its assets exceeded by liabilities “taking into account its contingent and prospective liabilities” — Whether prospective liabilities to be taken into account at face value irrespective of maturity date or rate of interest payable in meantime — Whether company unable to pay debts — Insolvency Act 1986, s 123(1)(e)(2)

  9 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v Taylor (George Charles)

  25 Mar 2011 [2011] EWCA Crim 728; [2011] 1 WLR 1809; [2011] Bus LR 1011; [2011] 2 Cr App R 47; [2011] WLR (D) 108, CA

  INSOLVENCY — Winding up — Fraudulent trading
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  INSOLVENCY — Winding up — Fraudulent trading — Falsification of books or papers by officer of company after commencement of winding up proceedings — Whether data stored on computer “book or paper” — Insolvency Act 1986, s 206(1)(c)

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered