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Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Briffa Legal Limited acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 10 Oct 2003 |
[2003] EWCA Civ 1368 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A telephone-directory threshold is administrative guidance, not a substitute for the statutory assessment of whether a surname mark can distinguish goods.…
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58 |
| 15 Jul 2004 |
[2004] EWCA Civ 886 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For unregistered design right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, a selection and juxtaposition of colours on an existing garment is neither an…
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15 |
| 9 Mar 2016 |
[2016] UKSC 12 · Supreme Court
The scope of a Community Registered Design is determined principally by interpreting the images filed by the applicant. A monochrome representation is not…
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14 |
| 11 Jul 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 1925 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For Community designs, the overall impression must be assessed by the informed user, having regard to the design corpus and the designer’s degree of freedom. A…
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10 |
| 23 Apr 2008 |
[2008] EWCA Civ 358 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the purposes of art 7 of the Regulation 6/2002 on Community designs, the specialised circles are identified by reference to the sector of the alleged prior…
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6 |
| 25 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2695 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Copyright protects original expression, including the original selection, arrangement and compilation of research material, but it does not protect historical…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 1 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 767 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
For trade mark infringement, the common presence of a descriptive word does not ordinarily establish similarity, a family of marks, or a likelihood of…
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| 18 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1793 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
A company dissolved with intellectual property assets passes those assets bona vacantia to the Crown. A third party cannot validly renew the rights without the…
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| 25 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2695 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Copyright protects original expression, including the original selection, arrangement and compilation of research material, but it does not protect historical…
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3 |
| 10 Feb 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1469 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
An allegation that documents are forgeries is adequately pleaded where the case is that they were created after their apparent dates and supporting…
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| 22 Dec 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 3457 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Patent claims must be construed through the eyes of the skilled team and in light of the common general knowledge. An indefinite reference to control for “a…
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| 11 Apr 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 776 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Passing off protects goodwill, not a monopoly in an unregistered name. Goodwill may attach to a name without associated get-up, but misrepresentation must be…
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| 9 Mar 2016 |
[2016] UKSC 12 · Supreme Court
The scope of a Community Registered Design is determined principally by interpreting the images filed by the applicant. A monochrome representation is not…
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14 |
| 18 Nov 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 1151 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Contractual construction is a unitary exercise. The court must identify the meaning which the language would convey to a reasonable person with the relevant…
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| 8 May 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 1242 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Copyright infringement may be inferred from striking similarities between the claimant’s work and the defendant’s design. The stronger the prima facie…
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1 |
| 1 Apr 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 842 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
A patent claim requiring an adhesive to self-seal irreversibly is assessed by asking whether, after limited attempts to disguise unauthorised opening, the…
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| 9 Jun 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 1874 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Under the Brussels I Regulation, jurisdiction over a cross-border dispute is distinct from the internal allocation of proceedings between domestic tribunals. A…
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| 10 Apr 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 408 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where an appeal substantially changes the result at trial, the appellate court may revisit the trial costs order. Costs should reflect the issues on which each…
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