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Allen and Hanburys Ltd v Generics (UK) Ltd: 1986

A licence: ‘passes no proprietary interest in anything; it only makes an action lawful which would otherwise have been unlawful.’

Judges:

Lord Diplock

Citations:

[1988] 2 All ER 454, [1986] RPC 203

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedIn Re Smith Kline and French Laboratories Ltd HL 9-Feb-1989
The plaintiffs had applied for a product licence for a patented drug. To support its application, it supplied the authority with confidential information which the authority now sought to make use of the confidential information when considering . .
CitedDouglas and others v Hello! Ltd and others (No 3) CA 18-May-2005
The principal claimants sold the rights to take photographs of their wedding to a co-claimant magazine (OK). Persons acting on behalf of the defendants took unauthorised photographs which the defendants published. The claimants had retained joint . .
CitedUltraframe (UK) Ltd v Fielding and others ChD 27-Jul-2005
The parties had engaged in a bitter 95 day trial in which allegations of forgery, theft, false accounting, blackmail and arson. A company owning patents and other rights had become insolvent, and the real concern was the destination and ownership of . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Intellectual Property

Updated: 07 December 2022; Ref: scu.180541

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