Copyright: Software Solutions Ltd v 365 Health and Wellbeing Ltd
Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Judge Melissa Clarke) Software Solutions Ltd and others v 365 Health and Wellbeing Ltd. and another [2021] EWHC 237 (IPEC) (9 Feb 2021) This was an action for copyright and database right infringement. The work that was alleged to have been infringed was what Her Honour Judge Melissa Clarke called "a computer application development framework" known as the "Integrated Development Environment for Applications" ("IDEA"). In other words, a tool for developing software. The first application ever to be created with the use of that tool was a mental health application called "Beating the Blues" ("BTB"). It was not disputed that copyright subsisted in the IDEA system, in each of its components and in its source code and that such copyrights belonged to the first claimant. It was also common ground that BTB reproduced the IDEA System source code materials. The claimants alleged that the d...