NIPC Law

Jane Lamber t Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels)  With Wise Ltd v Wise Payments Ltd (Formerly TransferWise Ltd ) [2025] EWHC 1809 (IPEC) (17 July 2025)   On 17 July 2025, I discussed Recorder Amanda Michaels's judgment in  Wise Payments Ltd v With Wise Ltd and others [2025] EWHC 1722 (IPEC) (11 July 2025) in Trade Marks - Wise Payments Ltd v With Wise Ltd.   In that article, I noted that those proceedings were unusual in that the trial in that action and counterclaim lasted more than two days and involved more than the average number of interim applications. One of those applications was brought by With Wise Ltd. and its directors for permission to amend their defence and counterclaim to seek the revocation of trade mark number UK3346396  for non-use under s.46 (1) (a) of the Trade Marks Act 1994.  The application was heard by His Honour Judge Hacon on 13 Dec 2024 (see  Wise Payments Ltd v With Wise Ltd and ot...

  Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court   (Mr David Stone) Lutec (UK) Ltd and others v Cascade Holdings Ltd and another (Costs) [2021] EWHC 2259 (IPEC) (13 Aug 2021) In Lutec (UK) Ltd and others v Cascade Holdings Ltd and another [2021] EWHC 1936 (IPEC) (09 July 2021), Mr David Stone found that the defendants had infringed the third claimant's registered designs. I discussed the case in  Registered Designs - Lutec (UK) Ltd v Cascade Holdings Ltd   on 2 Aug 2021.  The learned deputy judge  awarded  the third claimant its costs, to be assessed if not agreed. The parties were unable to agree on those costs so they asked Mr Stone to assess them. Costs in Ithe Patents County Court In  New Patents County Court Rules   (31 Oct 2021 NIPC Law), I discussed changes to Part 45 of the Civil Procedure Rules and the Part 45 Practice Direction which limited the costs that could be recovered in the Patents County Court.  Essentially, tho...