Piers Strickland, the latest Partner to join the boutique IP/IT practice, Waterfront Solicitors LLP, made a successful application for disclosure of documents from the file of the High Court in relation to some recent patent litigation proceedings involving Pfizer. You can read the HTML version of the Judgment by clicking here. This case, which has important public policy implications, clarifies the grounds on which a “non-party” to court proceedings who may have a significant interest in those proceedings may make an application for disclosure from the court file. In this case the subject matter concerned the validity of valuable patent monopoly rights owned by Pfizer. The application was carried out when Piers Strickland was a Partner at Strickland (Legal) LLP. On 1 December 2010, Strickland (Legal) LLP merged with Waterfront Solicitors LLP.
The current legal framework in the UK does not allow copying of copyright-protected material for training generative AI models, except where it is carried out with permission of the copyright owner or done in a research or study context and for purely non-commercial purposes.
This matter deals with the Claimant’s (‘TVIS’) allegation of infringement and misrepresentation in relation to its “VETSURE” trade mark by the Defendant (‘Howserv’s’) “PETSURE” trade mark, used for pet insurance. In the first instance decision, the claim was dismissed due to the marks being highly descriptive and “not…