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A uthor:  Raimond Spekking ,  Licence:  CC BY-SA 4.0 ,  Source:  Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert On 2 Sept 2026, I published Intellectual Property Law in the Isle of Man   in NIPC Northwest.  It made 520 impressions, prompted 11 reactions and drew the following comment from Timothy Powell : "VERY interesting, Jane. What chance a copyright case might come up there?" Not long after Tim asked that question, Mr David Stone handed down judgment in  DLP Limited v Coram UK Holding Limited  [2026] EWHC 2448.  This was a patent case in which the patentee was a company that had been incorporated and was doing business in the Isle of Man. The patent was for a Shower waste pump and control uni t. The patentee alleged that two of the defendant company's products infringed its patent. The defendant denied infringement and counterclaimed for revocation of the patent on the grounds that the invention was obvious and not new.  Mr Stone...

Jane Lambert Whenever I get a lot of enquiries on the same topic from a particular location I offer a talk on the subject.  I have recently had a lot of enquiries from Liverpool and the North West on "When is it OK to reuse other people's photos or other content?" The issue can arise in many ways. Sometimes a copyright owner complains that copies of his photos appear on someone else's website without his permission and he wants to know what he can do about it. Other times, I find myself counselling a business owner who has received a bruising letter before claim demanding eye-watering sums of money by way of compensation and legal costs and far-reaching undertakings. Before the launch of the small claims track of the small claims track of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in 2012, the question was often academic because the costs of copyright infringement litigation greatly exceeded the damages that were likely to be awarded. What has made it a live...

Embedded pursuant to the standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert The Intellectual Property Office has recently uploaded a series of videos to its YouTube channel  which are very short but also very useful. The primer is IP Basics: What is Intellectual Property   and it is followed by films on copyrights. designs , patents and trade marks . Although they have been uploaded for some time they do not seem to have been watched by many people which is a pity because they are a lot better than the advice one can expect from most invention promotion companies or even some lawyers and, of course, they are free. The above video on  IP BASICS: Is Intellectual Property important to my business?   has received only 970 views since the 27 Nov 2015 and a large number of those will have have been made by me. I hope this article may attract more viewers for these films. Good though the IPO animations are there are some that have been produced by other organizations that I l...