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Fendi, Loewe, Dior, Celine and LVMH have successfully pursued an online reseller, Rolo Fashion Limited, and its influencer founder over sales of so-called "superfake" counterfeit goods, with the court awarding the brands £213,000 in damages.

The High Court has handed down its quantum judgment in the trade mark dispute between the Swatch Group and Samsung, concerning watch face apps. The Swatch Group's expert valued the claim at approximately US$170 million; Samsung's expert valued it at just US$301. However, the court rejected both extremes and awarded "negotiation" damages of US$11.6 million.

In Accord Healthcare Ltd v Novartis AG, the Patents Court rejected validity challenges to Novartis' patent and supplementary protection certificate (SPC) for Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan), a blockbuster heart failure treatment.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court finding that publicly available information, which had been packaged together into an investment strategy, was protected by the law of confidence. The information did not lose that confidence by virtue of being disclosed to over 200 potential investors.  What mattered was that the information had not been made generally available to the public, rather than the number of people to whom it had been passed.

The European Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled on when publishing a work online that is copyright-protected in some EU Member States, but in the public domain in others, amounts to an unauthorised "communication to the public", providing guidance on the use of geo-blocking measures and VPNs.