Case Nos: IL-2023-000080 and IL-2024-000038 - [2025] EWHC 2561 (Ch)

Codeberry’ service allows its customers to search and verify addresses across the UK. At the core of the service is Codeberry’s GetAddress Database. For the most part its customers are provided with an application programming interface (API), a set of rules and protocols which allows the customer’s computer system to communicate with Codeberry’s software via the internet and thereby to access GetAddress.

The defendants’ pleaded case is that they made no use of PAF data in the creation of their database. This is from the Re-Re-Amended Defence:

OGL stands for Open Government Licence. The pleading goes on to list 12 datasets said to be freely available to the public which were ‘incorporated into the initial address database’.

The same pleading admits that in October 2015 Mr Smith ‘created an account with [IDDQD] in order to test [IDDQD’s] services.’ It is also admitted that since 31 October 2015 Mr Smith used his account with IDDQD to download data from IDDQD’s GBR Database. The defendants say that they were licensed to do so pursuant to the account with IDDQD opened by Mr Smtih. The GBR data was used only to update and correct their database.