Woof! The Kennel Club v Micro-ID Ltd
Border Terrier Author Biffo4tanks , Licence CC BY-SA 3,0 Source Wikipedia Border Terriers Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr Recorder Campbell) The Kennel Club Ltd v Micro-ID Ltd [2019] EWHC 1639 (IPEC) (25 June 2019) The Kennel Club is the UK authority for dog breeding, dog shows and other matters relating to dogs. One of its services is Petlog which indexes data held on chips that are implanted into dogs and other pets. Petlog helps police and other agencies restore lost or stray pets to their keepers. The defendant company, Micro-ID Ltd , is one of a number of businesses that implant chips into animals. The Kennel Club charges implanters such as Micro-ID a fee for entering chip data into Petlog pursuant to a contract known as the Reunification Database Management Agreement. The Kennel Club sued Micro-ID for £123,843.03 for moneys due under that agreement or, alternatively, by way of damages for bre...