NIPC Law

Entrance to the Rolls Building where IPEC sits By Muhammad Karns - Judicial Office Twitter feed., CC BY-SA 4.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78284579   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels)  Leeds Plywood & Doors Ltd v Deanta UK Ltd [2025] EWHC 1376 (IPEC) (3 Jun 2025) This transcript records Recorder Amanda Michaels's judgments in two interim applications: The defendant's application to strike out certain paragraphs of the claimant's managing director's witness statement and a cross-application by the claimant to strike out part of the witness statement of one of the defendant's witnesses; and  The claimant's application for specific disclosure. These applications seem to have been made at a very late stage because the recorder said at para [3] of her judgment that the trial was to take place in July.  The cause of action is not made clear, but as both parties make doors and there are references ...

Rolls Building Author  Boggling2019   Licence  CC BY-SA 4.0   Source  Wikimedia Commins Jane Lambert On 1 Oct 2010, the Patents County Court was overhauled by a new set of rules and practice directions which I discussed in New Patents County Court Rules   on 31 Oct 2010.  One of the main planks of the new rules was that the costs that could be recovered in an action before that court were to be limited to £50,000 for the trial and £25,000 for an account of profits and an inquiry.  The costs for steps in the litigation were also capped by a scale that I mentioned in my article. The Patents County Court was abolished by the Courts and Crime Act 2013 and replaced by the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ("IPEC") (see Jane Lambert  What does the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court mean for Litigants in the North West?   12 Oct 2013 IP Northwest ). The new court inherited the rules and practices of the Patents County Court including ...

The Rolls Building Author Judicial Office Licence CC BY-SA 4. 0   Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Last week I chaired 4 of the 5 daily sessions of Informa's Cambridge IP "Winter School"  and delivered 3 of the talks. The title of the last of those talks (which was also the last talk of the Winter School) was IP Litigation in England and Wale s. I offered that talk because not all the attendees in previous years' summer schools had been legally qualified and many of those who were so qualified were new to IP.  It seemed to me that there was not much point in discussing the complexities of IP litigation without a grounding in the basics. IP litigation differs from other types of civil litigation in many ways.  It has its own rules and practice direction.  Much IP business is conducted in specialist courts and all of the rest are in a specialist list in the Chancery Division.  IP litigation can be particularly expensive which is why threats to br...