The Business and Property Courts Practice Direction - IP Litigation outside London
Manchester Civil Justice Centre Author Skip88 Licence Copyright waived by the author Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert According to TaylorWessing's Patent Map , England and Wales remains the most expensive country in Europe in which to contest a patent action. The European Patent Office reports that the UK lay 9th in the number of European patent applications that were filed in 2017 trailing not just the USA, Japan, China and Germany which are considerably bigger in population and GDP than the UK but France, South Korea, Switzerland and the Netherlands that are the same size or smaller (see European patent filings per country of origin ). It seems likely that the UK's relatively lacklustre performance in the number of European patent applications is connected to the high cost of enforcement. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence from my practice, patent clinics and inventors' clubs to support that contention. One of the reason...