Jurisdiction(s):
United Kingdom

Key definition

Infringement definition

What does Infringement mean? In legal practice, infringement (of copyright) means doing, or authorising another to do, acts reserved to the copyright owner without permission. It is principally a statutory concept. Across the UK, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 defines the “restricted acts”: copying; issuing copies to the public; rental or lending; performance, playing or showing in public; communication to the public (including making available online); and making adaptations. In Ireland, comparable rights and restrictions appear in the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000. Taking the whole work is not required: reproducing a substantial part infringes. “Substantial” is a qualitative test informed by case...

Particulars of Infringement Template—Patent Infringement Claim for Patents Court/IPEC (England and Wales), including Actavis Equivalents and Statement of Truth

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Precedents

CLAIM No: [ insert claim number ]

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND & WALES
Intellectual property LIST (ChD)
[ Patents Court OR Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ]

Between:

[ insert full name of claimant ] — Claimant
[ [ insert full name of second claimant ] ] — [ Second Claimant ]

and

[ insert full name of defendant ] — First Defendant
[ [ insert full name of second defendant ] ] — [ Second Defendant ]

Particulars of Infringement

Set out below are the particulars of infringement of [ United Kingdom patent [ insert full patent number, eg GB… ] OR European patent (UK) [ insert full patent number, eg EP (UK)… ] ] (the Patent) as cited in the Particulars of Claim. Terms and expressions defined in the Particulars of Claim shall bear the same meanings for the purposes of this document...

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Dr Dominic Adair

Bristows

Dr Adair is a partner in the patent litigation group at Bristows LLP in London. He has a science background to PhD level which gives him an excellent grounding in the technical aspects of patent disputes. He has extensive experience of cross-border litigation in and beyond Europe and has worked on all aspects of the product life cycle in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector: from freedom to operate analyses and early stage risk assessments of generic and biosimilar competition to end-stage litigation on patents, term extensions and anti-trust issues. Dr Adair writes regularly on reported patent cases in the UK and at the EPO. He is a member of the European Patent Lawyers Association, an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and holds office as Honorary Secretary and Vice-President of AIPPI UK....

Emma Irwin

Bristows

Emma joined Bristows as a trainee solicitor in August 2016. During her training, Emma spent three months on secondment at a multinational digital entertainment company, where she gained valuable intellectual property, commercial contract and digital licensing experience. Emma works as part of a large team at Bristows who are responsible for a global product co-ordination project, in which she manages IP litigation in a range of jurisdictions. She regularly works alongside lawyers and patent attorneys in other jurisdictions in Europe, Asia and Latin America.In addition to this project, Emma has significant experience of coordinating international patent litigation for a number of clients. Most recently, Emma was part of the team who successfully brought a clearing the way action at the UK High Court for a large pharmaceuticals company. The team remains heavily involved in managing the parallel litigations around the world, allowing Emma the...

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