6/16/2025 1:48:34 PM Change your expert, risk your case! By Sarah Hill Instructing expert witnesses in high value, technical disputes is an inevitability. Often multiple experts per party are required. Unless...
6/9/2025 1:46:25 PM AI and copyright finally have their day in Court - Getty v Stability AI By Naomi Foale In what will be a landmark test of how artificial intelligence (AI) can be accommodated within legal frameworks designed for a pre-AI...
6/3/2025 3:06:58 PM Undisclosed principal entitled to enforce arbitral award By Wes Walker Robert Graham Summary In its decision in MSH Limited v HCS Limited [2025] EWHC 815 (Comm), the High Court considered and dismissed a jurisdictional...
5/15/2025 2:22:25 PM No NDA? No problem! High Court awards £2.15m damages in misuse of confidential information case based on implied duty of confidence By Fariha Chowdhury Charlie Purdie Angela Fouracre In the recent decision of Henderson & Jones Ltd v Salica Investments Ltd & Others [2025] EWHC 475 (Comm), the High Court reaffirmed the...
5/7/2025 10:33:11 AM Fake authorities cited by counsel in the High Court—AI suspected By Wes Walker Ayinde v The London Borough of Haringey [2025] EWHC 1040 (Admin) is partly a decision about relief from sanctions in the context of a...
5/1/2025 5:44:35 PM STOP PRESS: UK Court of Appeal Overturns and Re-Decides FRAND Royalty in Optis v Apple proceedings ([2025] EWCA Civ 552) By Matthew Raynor Sophie Lawrance Richard Pinckney In a major judgment addressing the valuation of standard-essential patent (SEP) licences, the Court of Appeal has overturned the...
4/4/2025 9:45:24 AM Nike’s Design Setback As Its Own Earlier Patent Invalidates Its EU Design Registration By Jessica des Landes Simon Clark The Invalidity Division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) ruled against Nike Innovate C.V. to invalidate one of...
3/24/2025 10:32:22 PM UPC post Electrolux By Richard Pinckney The UPC in IMC Créations v Mul-T-Lock France and Mul-T-Lock Switzerland has applied BSH v Electrolux. The court decided it has...
2/14/2025 10:01:07 AM Bristows’ SnippITs – Part 2: Suppliers beware! [of excluding Everything Everywhere] By James Johnston Katy Gibson Adrian Sim This post is the latest in the Bristows’ SnippITs series, which pulls together the key practical takeaways from recent court decisions...
2/6/2025 3:53:48 PM Castles (Not) Made Of Sand By Simon Clark Noel Redding Estate Ltd and another v Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 66 This morning (Thursday, 6 February), the Court...
1/27/2025 4:34:30 PM Bristows’ SnippITs - Put your thinking caps on to avoid an explosive result By Soraya Gajra Adrian Sim This post is the latest in the Bristows’ SnippITs series, which pulls together the key practical takeaways from recent court decisions...
1/24/2025 5:25:33 PM Termination Rights Gone Wrong: Lessons from the Zaha Hadid Case By Alan Sansom Wes Walker In late 2024, Mr. Justice Adam Johnson delivered his judgment in Zaha Hadid Ltd v Zaha Hadid Foundation [2024] EWHC 3325 (Ch), offering...