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Intellectual Property: Jurisdiction or Choice of Law?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2002

K. Lipstein
K. Lipstein*
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University of Cambridge; Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
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Abstract

It has long been recognised that Industrial and Intellectual Law is territorial. A comparison with laws relating to landed property led English courts to conclude that they should refrain from exercising jurisdiction when any such foreign laws are involved. The Brussels Convention has eliminated this self-restraint. However it has been overrruled that in reality a special choice of law is in issue. The territoriality of legislation has a positive as well as a negative effect. Negatively no foreign law will be applied locally. Choice of law is replaced by a division of laws territorially.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , 24 June 2002 , pp. 295 - 300
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2002

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3 For England see text to n. 10 below.

4 (1906) 3 C.L.R. 479 on appeal from [1905] V.L.R. 612.

5 [1893] A.C. 602.

6 [1995] R.P.C. 438, 447.

7 [1991] Ch. 75.

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9 See n. 11 below.

10 [1895] Ch. 535.

11 Repeated in Mölnlycke v. Procter & Gamble [1992] 1 W.L.R. 1113, 1117-1118.

12 Def Lepp v. Stuart Brown [1986] R.P.C. 273, 275; Apple Corp. v. Apple Computer [1992] F.S.R. 431, 470; Norbert Steinhardt v. Meth (1960-1961) 105 C.L.R. 440, 443 unless the legislation determines otherwise. Abkco v. Music Collection [1995] R.P.C. 657, 660 and see Copyright Act 1988 s. 16(2).

13 Lipstein [1972 I] Hague Rec. 99 at 204-205; (1977) 26 I.C.L.Q. 884, 893.

14 The Halley (1861) L.R. 2 Adm. & Ecc. 3, 13, 15 per Sir Robert Phillimore—but see the Privy Council (1868) L.R. 2 P.C. 190 on different grounds; Be Blain (1819) 12 Ch. D 522, 521, 529, 531; Cooke v. Charles A. Vogeler Co. [1901] A.C. 102, 110.

15 But see von Bar II no. 110.

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18 Pearce v. Ove Arup above.

19 Fort Dodge Ltd. v. Akzo Nobel NV. [1998] I.L.Pr. 732, at p. 741, para. [22], [1998] F.S.R. 222, at p. 229; Plastus Kreativ A.B. v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. [1995] R.P.C. 438, at p. 447.

20 [2000] Ch. 403; [2000] 3 W.L.R. 332; [1999] 1 All E.R. 769.

21 See n. 5 above.

22 [2000] Ch. 403; [2000] 3 W.L.R. 332; [1999] 1 All E.R. 769.