In its last judgment of 2022, the Patents Court issued a decision in the case of Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd [2022] EWHC 3200 (Pat). In this 650-paragraph judgement, the court ruled that students can in certain situations be ‘consumers’ vis a vis the university under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulation (1999/2083) (‘UTCCR’). In the case before it, however, the court ruled that the terms of the contract between the student and the university regarding the transfer of IP rights were not unfair and thus did not run afoul of the UTCCR … (more)
[Benjamin Goh, The IPKat, 27 January 2023]
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