News
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Intellectual Property Disputes
A new Small Claims Service is to be introduced at the Patents County Court. The new procedure will impose limits on fixed costs and will allow damages up to a limit of £5,000 per case.
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Judicial Review – Pensions:
An application for Judicial Review made by an alliance of the Police Federation, the Civil Service Pensions Aliance, National Union of Teachers and Fire Brigade unions against the Government’s decision to use the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in place of the Retail Price Index (RPI), has failed, in a judgment handed down on the 02nd December 2011.
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Intellectual property disputes
Givemefootball (G) was the host of the Professional Football Association (PFA) website. Playup (P) ran a gaming business over mobile phones. The parties entered into a contract under which G agreed with P to send targeted text messages to customers who used their site and who would obviously be interested in the sort of interactive gaming offered by P.