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British Horseracing Board Ltd and Others v William Hill Organization Ltd: CA 31 Jul 2001

The Board had established a database of information about horse racing. It was costly. The defendants recovered the information from a licensed user, and used it for its own business purposes. It was not suggested that the licensee had any right to sub-licence the data. The Board had succeeded, at first instance, in arguing that … Continue reading British Horseracing Board Ltd and Others v William Hill Organization Ltd: CA 31 Jul 2001

British Horseracing Board Ltd v William Hill Organisation Ltd: PatC 9 Feb 2001

The defendants received data, prepared and distributed by the claimants, regarding horse races, and incorporated the information into their web pages as part of a betting service. There might have been other, indirect, ways of obtaining the same data, but in practice they would rely on data received by a third party from the claimant. … Continue reading British Horseracing Board Ltd v William Hill Organisation Ltd: PatC 9 Feb 2001