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Instructions

Superpump Limited (“Superpump”) is a company based in Aberdeen, Scotland that supplies major items of plant and equipment for the offshore oil and gas industry.

Superpump has run into some legal problems, as disclosed in the two factual scenarios, below.

Superpump now urgently seeks your advice on its legal rights and liabilities in the light of the below.In responding, you should aim to both identify the legal issues disclosed and, making use of legal literature and authority where possible, provide detailed and reasoned advice to Superpump.

You should answer Scenario 1 (which counts for 20% of the overall grade for the assessment) in no more than 750 words

Scenario 1

Note: Your answer to this scenario will make up 20% of the overall grade for this assessment; you should answer in no more than 750 words

Superpump Limited (“Superpump”) is a company based in Aberdeen, Scotland that supplies major items of plant and equipment for the offshore oil and gas industry.

Superpump has learned that a rival company, Pumps-R-Us Limited (“Pumps-R-Us”), has started supplying a high-pressure pump (the Pumps-R-Us-Turbo) that is extraordinarily similar to Superpump’s own Superpump DBX.Upon investigation, they discover that Pumps-R-Us are the current employers of Maurice, who was the head of Superpump’s Research and Design department at the time the Superpump DBX was developed. Maurice was never an employee with Superpump but worked with them as a contractor for three years.Superpump has checked their copy of the written contract for the provision of services that existed between it and Maurice.The contract says nothing about who will be the owner of any intellectual property rights developed.