Article summary
This week's edition of IP weekly highlights includes analysis of the decision in Facebook v Voxer which considered (obiter) the applicability of a Formstein defence, the Court of Appeal’s decision in Thomas v One Luv All Promotions which concerned the ownership of the goodwill in a name belonging to a musical group that split up in 2016, the launch of a consultation by the IPO on the removal of ‘film’ from the list of exceptions to copyright infringement in section 72 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and a new government consultation on the UK’s future regime for the exhaustion of IP rights.
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