Read the full judgment text of CACV 000117/1982 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 6 October 1982.
1. In the court below the plaintiffs obtained interlocutory injunctions drafted in very wide terms. Their general effect is to restrain the two sets of defendants from dealing in any way whatsoever with certain electronic games which are named therein or with any electronic video game similar to Pac-man, a particular game in which the plaintiffs claim copyright. The injunctions extend to the characters, incidents and sound effects incidental to the plaintiffs. game and there is the usual order f