High Court Rules On Subsistence Of Copyright And Database Rights In XML Schema

Software Solutions Ltd claimed that 365 Health and Wellbeing Ltd had infringed copyright and database right in a computer application development framework known as the "Integrated Development Environment for Applications" (IDEA System) by marketing a mental health application called "Beating the Blues" (BTB), and specifically version 5 of BTB.

The IDEA System was developed utilising the XML format to create/structure, validate and run applications created using the IDEA System.

Three of the main components of the IDEA System were:

1. the IDEA Editor, or authoring software, which allows the author-user creating an application to define the "frames" and "trees" of the application and creates XML files that conform with the XML data formats developed as part of the development of the IDEA System and referred to as the "XML Schema";