Patents County Court could be set for big-ticket cases
07 October 2011
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Simon Crompton, London
The growing popularity of new streamlined procedures at the UK Patents County Court could lead to it handling far higher value cases in the future
A year ago, rules were introduced to simplify and shorten proceedings at the PCC and Judge Colin Birss was appointed as the judge.
Birss predicted in a talk today that if the Court is as popular in three years as it is now, it may lift the present damages cap of £500,000. Alternatively, he said, the High Court could adopt some of the PCC’s procedures to encourage IP litigants to file there.
"When I first came to the PCC – like a boy at a new school with a shiny apple in my hand – I looked in the diary and we had only three hearings planned – ever....
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