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IDDQD Ltd v Codeberry Ltd & Anor [2025] EWHC 2561 (Ch) (10 October 2025)
The High Court held that Codeberry and Lee Smith infringed database right and copyright in Royal Mail’s PAF and IDDQD’s GBR Database, rejecting consent and limitation defences.
The court held that the pleaded format of Shambles was not a copyright-protected dramatic work and, in any event, Baby Cow Productions Ltd did not infringe it.
The First-tier Tribunal upheld a ÂŁ26,835 civil evasion penalty over seized cigarettes, finding the appellant owned the goods and that dishonesty followed.
The court held that copyright subsisted in a knitted wave-pattern fabric as a work of artistic craftsmanship, and that EWM’s sales of copied fabrics infringed it.
The High Court held that four Lancia Stratos cars were not validly gifted by a father to his son under Austrian law and remained the father's property.
The court declared the Bradleys had rights to the gates and pillars, refused an injunction, and ordered the Heslins to pay 50% of the Bradleys’ costs.
DKH Retail Ltd v H. Young (Operations) Ltd [2014] EWHC 4034 (IPEC) (08 December 2014)
The court held that DKH’s gilet front-and-hood design and hood design were protectable, were infringed by H Young’s Glaisdale gilet, and supported secondary infringement from 14 days after notice.
Utopia Tableware Ltd v BBP Marketing Ltd & Anor [2013] EWHC 3483 (IPEC) (12 November 2013)
The court held that Utopia Tableware’s Aspen beer glass design was protected by unregistered and registered design rights and that the defendants’ Aspire glass infringed both.
Burton v New Forest District Council [2004] EWCA Civ 1510 (12 November 2004)
The Court of Appeal held that a registered proprietor of land was an “owner” for housing benefit purposes, even if holding the property on trust.
Ultraframe UK Ltd v Clayton & Ors [2003] EWHC 242 (Ch) (14 February 2003)
The High Court struck out the London action and reserved costs to be decided with the linked Leeds proceedings, given the tangled web of related design-right disputes.
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