Patents - Cloud Cycle Ltd v Verifi LLC
Author Fg2 Licence Copyright waived by the author Jane Lamber t Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Cloud Cycle Ltd v Verifi LLC and another [2024] EWHC 233 (IPEC) (7 Feb 2024) In this action and counterclaim Cloud Cycle Ltd ("CCL") is suing Verifi LLC ("Verifi") and GCP Applied Technologies (UK) Limited ("GCP") for a declaration of non-infringement of European Patent (UK) No. 1 720 689 ("the patent") and Verifi and GCP are counterclaiming for infringement of the patent. Verifi and GCP applied for an interim injunction to restrain CCL from dealing with new customers in an allegedly infringing system for ascertaining the consistency of concrete known as "slump". CCL responded with an application for summary judgment on its claim and dismissal of the counterclaim. Both applications came on before His Honour Judge Hacon on 31 Jan 2024. By para [20] of his judgment in Cloud Cycle Ltd v Verif...