NIPC Law

Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacom) J eff Gosling Ltd. v Autochair Ltd,   [2025] EWHC 1687 (IPEC) 8 July 2025 The Parties Jeff Gosling Ltd. ("JGL")  installs a range of boot hoists used to load a wheelchair or scooter into the boot of a saloon car or the rear of a hatchback, van or estate car.  One of those products is known as an  "Apex Assist" hoist . A diagram of that product taken from its fitting instructions appears above.   Autochair Ltd . ("Autochair") also supplies a range of hoists that load and unload wheelchairs, mobility scooters and power chairs from vehicles.  That company is the proprietor of  European Patent No. 2 578 197 B1  (‘the Patent’) for a hoist for loading and unloading an item into and out of the load-carrying space of a vehicle such as the boot of a car.  Declarations of Non-Infringement S.71 of the Patents Act 1977 provides a procedure by which a party who fears that an ...

Author Ltak Licence  Creative Commons-Attribution Share Alike 3.0 unported Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Arnold)  Parainen Pearl Shipping Ltd and Others v Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Skipsrederi AS and Others [2017] EWHC 2570 (Pat) (18 Oct 2017)  This was a dispute between a company that had been incorporated in the Marshall Islands  and its Cypriot subsidiaries on the one hand and three companies that had been incorporated in Norway on the other over whether the Patents Court had jurisdiction to hear an action for a declaration of non-infringement relating to the bulk discharge system of a Bahamas registered cement carrier that was alleged to infringe the British, Finnish and Swedish designations of European patent number 2 032 426 "System and method for discharge of bulk material from a ship".   Particulars of the ship together with photographs of her can be found on the Marine Traffic  website. The Dispute The...