Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 128 (Apr)
Court: Patents County Court
Judge:

John Baldwin QC sitting as a deputy judge

Representation Robert Onslow (instructed by Trethowans LLP) for the claimant.
  Denise McFarland (instructed by Richard Griffiths & Co) for the defendants.
Judgment Dates: 18 April 2012

Catchwords

Design - Design right - Ownership - Commission - Claimant asserting ownership of design rights - Claimant submitting products designed and made by first defendant company pursuant to commission - Claimant seeking declaration and delivery up - Whether commission being established - Whether commission being established in equity - Whether implied term vesting rights in claimant - Whether delivery up should be ordered - .

The Case

Design Design right. The Patents County Court refused a declaration for ownership of design rights absent evidence of a commission under of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, but ordered the delivery up of the claimant's goods.

Practice Areas

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