NHS granted a license to copy ? The duel with England is not only happening on the football pitch but also on the web: an Italian company found itself deprived of its trademark (myHealthbox) by a British company (Slam) operating in
BigNews.Biz - Jun 27,2012 - The duel with England is not only happening on the football pitch but also on the web: an Italian company found itself deprived of its trademark (myHealthbox) by a British company (Slam) operating in the same field of digital solutions for the healthcare (mHealth).
The British company has not even bothered to check whether the trademark in question (myHealthbox) was already registered and used safely shielded by its partnership with Microsoft HealthVault and media exposure granted by the opening of the new service by the Health minister Lord Howe.
Faced with complaints from the Italian company, the British have displayed a formidable defence constituted by the famous (and expensive) London law firm Bates Wells & Braithwaite that, in pure Anglo-Saxon style, have claimed the invalidity of the European trademark.
Perhaps the English feel less and less European these days, or they simply have a license to copy?
Tags
myHealthbox, maudsley , SLAM, Microsoft HealthVault, Lord Howe, Bates Wells & Braithwaite
Links and futher reading material
lawyers' letters available upon request
http://www.slam.nhs.uk/results.aspx?site=default_collection&client=SLAM2010&proxystylesheet=SLAM2010&output=xml_no_dtd&q=myhealthbox
http://www.slam.nhs.uk/media/316214/faqs%20for%20public%20website.pdf
http://www.slam.nhs.uk/media-and-publications/latest-news/health-minister-launches-myhealthbox---a-world-first-for-mental-health-care
http://www.slam.nhs.uk/media-and-publications/films/technology-and-healthcare
http://www.slam.nhs.uk/media-and-publications/archived-news/minister%E2%80%99s-maudsley-visit-marks-%C2%A332m-boost-for-young-mental-health
http://www.pifonline.org.uk/myhealthbox-launches-the-worlds-first-patient-held-electronic-health-record-for-mental-health/
http://www.getrealconsulting.com/get-real-collaborat%E2%80%8Bes-on-world%E2%80%99s-first-mental-health-patient-held-electronic-health-record/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2012/may/16/south-london-maudsley-trust-launches-myhealthbox-microsoft
http://www.pmlive.com/digital_intelligence_blog/archive/2012/may_2014/myhealthbox_nhs_microsoft_mental_health_electronic_patient_record
http://informationstrategy.dh.gov.uk/slam/
a Google search for the following terms: “maudsley myhealthbox microsoft healthvault” will display over 700 links
http://www.ehi.co.uk/search.cfm?searchterm=myhealthbox&summary=true
https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Burstow+myhealthbox&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=ubuntu&channel=fs#hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=VsL&channel=fs&sclient=psy-ab&q=Lord+Howe+myhealthbox&oq=Lord+Howe+myhealthbox&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.12...353902.353902.0.355229.1.1.0.0.0.0.596.596.5-1.1.0...0.0.Zw64p7PHYBA&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=a364499a926ab80a&biw=1525&bih=689
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