Browned Off, At No Cost; Espacenet Surrenders To Pop Demand; Iam

1 Browned off, at no cost

In Locksley Brown v MCASSO Music Productions Ltd (noted thence far only on the All England Direct service) a two-man Court of Appeal consisting of Lords Justices Scott Baker together with Neuberger yesterday overturned a determination of Judge Michael Fysh QC on costs inwards a rather messy copyright dispute.

Brown sued Mcasso inwards the Patents County Court for copyright infringement regarding the lyrics inwards a rap song, "Mr High Roller". Although the example was allocated to the fast track, substantial declaration erupted equally to whether Brown owned the copyright solely or only equally a articulation owner. Finding that Brown owned a 10& part inwards the copyright, he awarded him but £180 of his ain costs but made him pay Mcasso's too. In his sentiment the the costs gild inwards favour of Mcasso equally justified since Brown refused to cause got 2 offers past times Mcasso to settle the activity together with also refused mediation. Mcasso together with thence handed Brown a £52,000 costs bill. Brown appealed on the costs issue, disputation that the gauge erred inwards considering the matters that were irrelevant to the number of liability together with had overlooked the fact that the example had been allocated to the fast track.

The Court of Appeal allowed Brown's appeal. Judge Fysh had been entitled to consider Mcasso's commencement offering to settle the activity on a express reason only, but he was non entitled, on the reason of electrical flow authorities, to consider either the offering to mediate or the mo offering to settle the action. Also, since this example was fast tracked, Mcasso's pecker of costs was excessive. The correct thing for the gauge to cause got done was to brand no gild at all equally to costs.

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2 Espacenet caves inwards to world demand

's friend Barbara Cookson has sent him the next informative epistle:

Your readers may similar to know that Espacenet has succumbed to overwhelming patent agent pressure level together with allowed you lot to download a sum patent document. They say:

"We are pleased to denote that from the iv Nov 2005, esp@cenet features sum document printing together with downloading.

We were concerned that sum document downloads together with printing mightiness encourage gleeful esp@cenetters to start printing together with downloading inwards earnest, together with this mightiness cause got pose an intolerable strain on the system.

We are instantly satisfied that nosotros cause got the correct technical solution (users must get together together with collate the pages of a document earlier downloading it), together with a screening organisation to discriminate against automated document retrieval inwards favour of humans (when requesting a download, users cause got to type inwards a graphically displayed keyword inwards reply to a prompt)".

The less expert intelligence is that it worked perfectly on Windows 98 but non on XP professional. Barbara wonders how the IPKat volition fare inwards its search for the sum text of suitably catty patents.

says, "His search, Barbara - non its search"; the Kat has non even thence fallen nether the veterinarian scalpel. As for catty patents, how virtually these for starters? (Click here and here).


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