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Salmon Scotland, a trade body representing the Scottish salmon industry, applied to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on 20 July 2023 for a non-minor amendment to the Scottish Farmed Salmon…
The claimant, NoCopyrightSounds Limited ("NCS"), holds rights in a catalogue of music and sound recordings and carries on business as a YouTube channel, music publisher and record label. The defendants, AEI Music Limited and…
The four claimants belong to the Entain Group, one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups. Its brands include Coral, Ladbrokes, bwin and Sportingbet, and casino and bingo brands such as Gala, Foxy and Party…
The claimant, FLOWERBX Limited, began trading in the UK in 2015. Its founder and chief executive, Whitney Bromberg Hawkings, had worked in the fashion industry at Gucci and Tom Ford, and conceived the FLOWERBX name for an online…
Del Bosque Limited ("DBL") provides project management services to the construction industry; at the material time its largest client was the Department for Work and Pensions. The first defendant, Mr Amir Shafie, was a director…
The claimants are ten Swiss and German companies in the Swatch group of watchmakers, whose brands range from Swatch in the basic range through Tissot, Mido and Hamilton, Longines and Omega to the prestige marques Breguet…
The claimant, Automobile Club de l'Ouest, is a French non-profit organisation which organises the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance motor race. The first defendant, Omologato Limited, designs and markets watches by reference to the…
The claimant, anonymised as XYZ, brought a claim for breach of confidence against the defendant, UVW, an employee whose employment the claimant purported to terminate on 31 October 2025 but which continues by virtue of an order…
The claimant, Shenzhen SKE Technology Co. Ltd, is a Chinese e-cigarette manufacturer which sued Vapepen London Ltd, Mr Parmeet Singh Kukreja, Bargain Busting Limited and Mr Tarlochan Singh Bindra for infringement of UK Registered…
Mr Mark Ellis made two requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to the Ministry of Defence for Army Equipment Support Publications — maintenance and repair manuals for Bedford trucks and mounted snowploughs. His first…
The claimant, Garden House Software Limited ("GHSL"), is the assignee of the claims of Serisys Limited (in liquidation) ("the Company"), an English company compulsorily wound up on HMRC's petition on 27 March 2019. The Company…
EMJ Plastics Limited designs and manufactures permanent "formwork" panels — moulded glass reinforced plastic panels onto which steel-reinforced concrete is cast in bridge construction. Mr Baggaley was employed by EMJ from 22…
The dispute concerns the video game Six Days in Fallujah, a self-described "documentary military shooter" which Victura, Inc has spent some $52m over eight years developing and which has been on sale in "early access" over the…
ML Technology Limited (MLT) and Naurex Limited sued B.E.A.T. SAM Limited, Ergonos Consulting SA, Capefront S/A AG, other corporate defendants and three individuals, alleging infringement of the NAUREX registered trade marks…
The claimants, Roadget Business Pte Ltd (the Singapore parent of the SHEIN group) and Shein Distribution UK Ltd, sued Whaleco UK Limited, which operates the Temu online marketplace in the UK, for copyright infringement under the…
Accord Healthcare Limited sought a declaration that European Patent (UK) No. 1 467 728 B1, owned by Novartis AG, was invalid, with a view to clearing the way for a competing product to be launched after Novartis' data exclusivity…
Tesla, Inc, a Texas company, and its English subsidiary Tesla Motors Ltd wished to launch 5G-enabled vehicles in the United Kingdom, their fourth largest market. Implementing the 5G standard set by the European Telecommunications…
The claimant, Mr Andrew Tipping, is a professional photographer of four decades' standing and the co-creator of Max Power, a monthly magazine devoted to performance-tuned and modified cars published between 1991 and 2011 by EMAP…
Windward Limited was the applicant for GB2108001.5, a patent application handled in the United Kingdom by its patent agent Mr Tom Hutchinson of Hutchinson IP, instructed through the applicant's professional representatives in…
The claimants, Hasbro Consumer Products Licensing Limited and Astley Baker Davies Limited, brought copyright infringement proceedings in the Intellectual Property List concerning the "Wolfoo" videos against Sconnect Co. Ltd, a…