Piers Strickland, the latest Partner to join the boutique IP/IT practice, Waterfront Solicitors LLP, made a successful application for disclosure of documents from the file of the High Court in relation to some recent patent litigation proceedings involving Pfizer. You can read the HTML version of the Judgment by clicking here. This case, which has important public policy implications, clarifies the grounds on which a “non-party” to court proceedings who may have a significant interest in those proceedings may make an application for disclosure from the court file. In this case the subject matter concerned the validity of valuable patent monopoly rights owned by Pfizer. The application was carried out when Piers Strickland was a Partner at Strickland (Legal) LLP. On 1 December 2010, Strickland (Legal) LLP merged with Waterfront Solicitors LLP.
A recent EU trade mark application for the word mark, PUT PUTIN IN, has been refused by the European Union Intellectual Property Office on the grounds of being contrary to public policy or to accepted principles of morality. While a fairly straightforward decision, this is a timely reminder…
Late yesterday UK time, it was reported that a lawyer for Twitter had sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg complaining about Meta’s new Threads app. Twitter claimed that it “has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta) has engaged in systematic, wilful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”.