NIPC Law

Author Satoshi Nakamoto Source Wikimedia   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Mellor)  Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Wright [2024] EWHC 1198 (Ch) (20 May 2024 ) Bitcoin was the world's first cryptocurrency , a digital currency that does not depend on a government, bank or other central institution to function. It is said to have been created by one Satoshi Nakamoto . Nobody knows the identity of that person or even whether that person is a single individual or a team. An Australian computer scientist called Craig Steven Wright ("Dr Wright") claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto but his claim has been disputed by an organization called the Crypto Open Patent Alliance ("COPA") . By an action instituted on 9 April 2023, COPA alleged that Dr Wright was not Sakamoto. Other Proceedings Dr Wright and two companies that he controlled called Wright International Investments Ltd. and Wright International Investments UK Ltd. responded by issuing passing-off proceedings...

Jane Lambert Patents Court (Lord Justice Birss) Facebook Ireland Ltd v Voxer IP LLC [2021] EWHC 657 (Pat) (19 March 2021) In    Eli Lilly v Actavis UK Ltd and others     [2017] Bus LR 1731, [2017] UKSC 48, [2017] RPC 21, the Supreme Court changed the way the courts decide whether a patent claim has been infringed. I discussed that judgment in detail in    The Supreme Court's Judgment in Eli Lilly v Actavis UK Ltd and Others: how to understand it and why it is important   13 July 2017. Up to that judgment a patent could be infringed only if a variant fell within the language of a claim. Lord Neuberger referred to that as a "normal construction". After that judgment a patent could be infringed if the variant operated in a manner that was equivalent to the claim.  This was referred to in that case and subsequently as the "doctrine of equivalents". The issue before Lord Justice Birss in  Facebook Ireland Ltd v Voxer IP LLC [2021] EWHC 657 was ...