Warning For Directors on IP Breach
A director who was the sole director and shareholder of a company and who failed to stop the employees of the company from breaching the design right of another company was recently held to be personally liable for the losses suffered by the other company. It is worth noting that, in this instance, the director actively facilitated the breach rather than merely failed to prevent it from happening.
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