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Zaha Hadid company urges UK appeal court to cut bonds of licensing deal

By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( January 28, 2026, 14:44 GMT | Insight) -- Architecture practice Zaha Hadid Ltd took its fight to extricate itself from a licensing agreement obliging it to pay the Zaha Hadid Foundation forever to the UK Court of Appeal on Wednesday, arguing that a lower court didn't properly acknowledge the exceptional construction of the underlying contract and wrongly weighed restraint of trade arguments.Architecture practice Zaha Hadid Ltd appeared before UK appeal  judges on Wednesday in its ongoing fight to extricate itself from a trademark licensing agreement that obliges it to pay part of its revenue to the Zaha Hadid Foundation forever....

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