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 ...

Jane Lambert Patent Court (Mr Justice Birss)  Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and Another [2017] EWHC 3083 (Pat) (30 Nov 2017)  On 5 April 2017 Mr Justice Birss delivered two judgments. One contained the judge's reasoning in full which was seen only by the parties' lawyers while the other was redacted.  I discussed the redacted version in FRAND   8 Oct 2017. The problem with redactions, as Mr Justice Birss observed at paragraph [23] of his judgment in  Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and another [2017] EWHC 3083 (Pat) (30 Nov 2017) is that "unless the public can see and understand a judge's reasons they cannot hold the courts to account."  Since different parties to the litigation had requested the removal of different parts of the full judgment, his lordship convened that hearing with the parties' solicitors to give directions about what should be published and what s...