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Science has long grappled with the problem of three buses coming at once. Amazingly, the new PCC rules provide a solution.
Temple Island (TI) owns the copyright in a photograph of a bus near Westminster and is suing New English Teas (NET) for using a similar photograph.
In court, TI applied to amend their claim to refer to another photograph which they said was even more similar to NET’s photograph, claiming it could have been ‘clandestinely’ or ‘subconsciously’ copied .
The court applied the cost-benefit test from the Civil Procedure Rules governing the Patents County Court. This says that material will only be admitted if the court is satisfied that the value of material in resolving issues justifies the cost of dealing with it.
The judge said that allowing the amendment would introduce a jungle of issues into an otherwise straightforward matter and would not help the Claimant’s case – so the amendment was refused.
Litigants will be pleased to see active case management which narrows issues and save costs.
The UK government is considering extending this power to depart from retained EU case law to additional lower courts and tribunals, namely the Court of Appeal in England and Wales and the High Court of Justice in England and Wales and their equivalents.
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Lord Justice Arnold has applied the guidance of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to the evidence before him, in the long standing trade mark dispute between Sky and Skykick.
The Hiscox Cyber Readiness report, a review of 3300 organisations, will be a stark warning for CEO’s of SME’s in the UK and in Europe.
How secure is your fitness tracker? (Not to mention your smartwatch, sleep tracker, smart shoe insoles and wearable Bluetooth keyboard). It’s something that many of us give little thought to, but perhaps we should be more concerned.
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