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Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases 2005 122(25):883-893; doi:10.1093/rpc/2005rpc35
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[2005] R.P.C. 35

BRITISH HORSERACING BOARD LTD v WILLIAM HILL ORGANISATION LTD

Court of Appeal

(Pill, Clarke and Jacob L.JJ.): June 28 and July 13, 20051

[2005] EWCA Civ 863; [2005] R.P.C. 35

Database right—Scope of the sui generis right—"Investment in obtaining the contents" of a database—"Investment in verifying the contents" of a database—Ruling from European Court of Justice—Whether European Court misunderstood primary facts when making ruling—Whether information in database merely gathered or whether it was created.

Key Words: Bookmakers • Database right • EC law • Electronic commerce • Extraction • Horse racing

1 Paragraph numbers in this judgment are as assigned by the court.


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