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Primary infringer definition

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What does Primary infringer mean?

A threat can be made to a primary infringer that is protected from the tort of making unjustified threats of patent infringement.

This includes infringing acts comprising the making (manufacture) of the patented product or the importation of the same.

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Copyright infringement

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) gives the copyright owner exclusive rights in the UK to carry out various acts in relation to the copyright work. Activities set out in CDPA 1988 carried out by those other than the copyright owner, without permission, may infringe the owner's exclusive rights.Status of EU copyright law in the UKAs of 31 January 2020, the UK ceased to be an EU Member State. In accordance with the Withdrawal Agreement, the UK entered a transition or implementation period of 11 months ending on 31 December 2020 (IP completion day), during which it continued to be subject to EU law. EU law introduced, or implemented, after the expiry of this period is not binding on the UK. For pre-existing legislation, the legal position existing immediately before IP completion day was preserved for the purposes of legal continuity, by taking a snapshot of the EU law that applied in the UK at that point and (for the most part) bringing it within the UK’s...

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