Article published: 13 January 2025
Too bullish to ignore an expert? A cautionary tale from a costs hearing that clients ignore expert’s opinions at their peril. This was a fairly common story in the IT world, the claimant tried to sell some software to the defendant providing information, demonstrations and (allegedly) the source code. They weren’t successful and some time later the claimant noticed their putative client announcing they were using software that to them seemed very similar, put two and two together and came up with a claim for copyright infringement.
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