The parties sought to agree the terms of a reference to the European Court of Justice. Judges: Arnold J Citations: [2010] EWHC 3012 (Ch), [2011] 2 CMLR 9, [2011] FSR 12, [2011] Eu LR 303 Links: Bailii Statutes: Council Directive 91/250/EEC of 14 May 1991 on the legal protection of computer programs Jurisdiction: England and … Continue reading SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd: ChD 22 Nov 2010

The claimant alleged infringement by the defendant of assorted intellectual property rights in its database. It provided systems for recovering materials deleted from Nokia mobile phones. Held: ‘the present case is concerned with a collection of numerical data . . the individual items of data are not protected by copyright. It follows that the collection … Continue reading Forensic Telecommunications Services Ltd v West Yorkshire Police and Another: ChD 9 Nov 2011