We are acting for a major business software reseller in a substantial dispute with a blue chip former customer relating to subsistence and infringement of intellectual property rights in a legacy database and system.
The dispute raised technical issues in relation to the interplay between the sui generis database right and copyright in the data and surrounding code, as well as the terms of the relevant licences.
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