Late Author’s Family Win Back Watership Down IP Rights
The family of the late Richard Adams have been awarded the rights to the author’s novel Watership Down. The High Court has ruled found in favour of Watership Downs Enterprises, the estate and family of Adams, against the US director of the 1978 animation, Martin Rosen. Rosen, who owned the motion picture rights to Watership […]
Apple and Qualcomm Settle Patent & Licensing Disputes
Apple and Qualcomm have brought their global patent and licensing battles to an end with an out of court settlement. A joint statement yesterday confirmed that an agreement had been reached to dismiss all ongoing litigation between the two companies worldwide, including with Apple’s contract manufacturers. The settlement includes a payment of royalties from Apple […]
Facebook Granted Patent for Tech that Passes On User Photos for Ads
Facebook has been granted a patent in the US for technology that enables the social media company to pass on users’ photographs to advertisers for use in online ads. The technology is referred to within the patent documentation as ‘computer-vision content detection for sponsored stories’. It can detect and tag images people have uploaded that […]
More UK Innovators Filing Patent Applications with EPO
Increasing numbers of UK innovators are filing patent applications with the European Patent Office (EPO), according to the EPO’s latest report. 5,736 patent applications were received by the EPO from UK applicants last year, representing a 7.8 per cent increase on the previous 12 months. Patent applications to the EPO as a whole have increased […]
Premier League TV Rights Case Raises Serious Intellectual Property Issues
The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) released today is the outcome expected, but may have far reaching consequences comments Michael Forrester of Ralli’s iSolicitors team. These cases concerned the screening of live premier league football matches in pubs through foreign decoder cards, issued by a Greek broadcaster to subscribers […]
ACS:Law/Media C.A.T-Judge Birss allows wasted costs application to proceed
Judgment was today handed down in the Patents County Court in the wasted and third party costs actions brought by a number of defendants against ACS: Law and the sole principle of that firm, Andrew Crossley. National law firm Ralli represented a number of Defendants in these actions. Ralli represented a number of defendants in […]
Illegal File Sharer Consumers To Launch Harassment Case
Ralli are advising hundreds of consumers in relation to a group action for harassment following letters from ACS:Law accusing those individuals of illegal filesharing and copyright infringement. Ralli have been contacted by hundreds of consumers who wish to discuss whether letters sent to them alleging copyright infringement over “peer to peer” networks amount to harassment. […]