Monthly Archives: March 2006

I have updated and transposed two pages from the old Kingsgate website:(1) a case note on the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Lotus Development Corporation v Borland International Inc. [1997] FSR 61 which … Continue reading →

The decision of Mr Justice Mulligan of the Supreme Court of South in Lott v JBW and Friends [2000] SASC 3 is a case that really ought to be better known. It covers three important issues: (1) the subsistence of … Continue reading →

“Mobilizing minds in Merseyside” was the title of Peter Raymond OBE’s masterly presentation to launch the Liverpool Inventors Club. And a very successful launch it was too with an audience of 24 drawn from the professions, universities, financial institutions as … Continue reading →

The Liverpool Inventors Club will be launched with a presentation by Peter Raymond at 16:00 tomorrow. The venue will be Liverpool Central Library at William George Street,. There has been so much interest in the Club that we have decided … Continue reading →

I have transposed and updated pages that I first wrote in May 2004, Sep 2002 and Jan 2001 respectively on Copyright Licensing, Licensing Schemes and the decision of the Copyright Tribunal in Universities UK v Copyright Licensing Agency and Another.A … Continue reading →

I am grateful to Messieurs Jeff Steck and Dennis Crouch of Patently-O for bringing the very recent decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Wilson Sporting Goods v. Hillerich & Bradsby (Fed. Cir. 2006, 05–1103) … Continue reading →

The Licensing Executives Society Report for 2005 was published yesterday. I was pleased to see that GB and Ireland were still the largest branch in Europe with 633 members though we are only a notch ahead of Germany with 618 … Continue reading →

While looking up the specification for the “Baby Dream Machine” in Espacenet for my other blog, I came across a patent entitled “Enclosure for Babies“. The inventor is one Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks of Clifford’s Inn. Now I have a flat in … Continue reading →

Apologies to those of you who have subscribed to my Bloglet email updating sevrice. It seems to have gone to sleep. The same thing seems to have happened to Dennis Crouch because I noticed that he changed from Bloglet to … Continue reading →

The requirements for copyright protection are that the work must be in which copyright is capable of subsisting and that certain conditions as to qualification are met. S.153 (1) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 provides that a … Continue reading →