tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949935810569534550.post6717525663078272802..comments2023-08-17T14:09:24.945+01:00Comments on PatLit: the patent litigation weblog: The PCC Page, no.1: "All change at the Patents County Court"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949935810569534550.post-36327536641580947572010-10-13T22:13:41.531+01:002010-10-13T22:13:41.531+01:00Thanks for mentioning us, Barbara.
We offer spec...Thanks for mentioning us, Barbara. <br /><br />We offer specialist low cost mediation and arbitration of intellectual property and technology disputes. If you consult our rules and costs schedule you will find that both service are designed for disputes involving start-ups and other small businesses.<br /><br />The mediation site is as http://www.nipc-mediation.co.uk/ and the arbitration site at http://www.nipcarb.co.uk/<br /><br />The IPO offers mediation and, of course, advisory opinions on validity and infringement pursuant to s.74A of the Patents Act 1977 but it does not offer arbitration. The WIPO offers arbitration, mediation and expert determination of IP disputes. Also, it has resolved a large number of generic and country code top level domain name disputes over the last 11 yearsJane Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14448574554083999342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949935810569534550.post-64999872573056044552010-10-13T07:46:06.215+01:002010-10-13T07:46:06.215+01:00Since much of the procedure takes place before pro...Since much of the procedure takes place before proceedings begin, claimants do not need to use a solicitor or IPReg regulated litigator at all. This may or may not provide cheaper support services to consumers. Hopefully future posts will discuss the pre-action procedure and economical sources of essential ADR. <br />So far there are only two providers<br />Nipclaw and the IPOFilemothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15735898485265104580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949935810569534550.post-14922095955806042472010-10-12T07:58:49.977+01:002010-10-12T07:58:49.977+01:00If this can be pushed through, it could attract mu...If this can be pushed through, it could attract much of the non-pharma litigation currently done in Germany.<br /><br />Litigants from Asia and mainland Europe prefer Germany for engineering cases because i) its procedural law is so much like theirs at home, ii) it caps their cost liability, and iii) its patent attorneys are engineers and share the running of the litigation. For those comforts, that they are willing to litigate in two courts (Duesseldorf for infringement and Munich for validity) in the German language.<br /><br />England is a victim of the more or less immovable prejudice around the world, that patent litigation is slow, grotesquely expensive and in the hands of lawyers who are not engineers.<br /><br />The English litigation community should be emphasising i) how slow and uncertain Germany is, when you factor in the inevitable appeal process and ii) use of the English first instance decision as an early "road map" to settle the case all over EPC-land.<br /><br />Germany's patent litigation system is more like ADR (with injunctive relief in there somewhere) than adversarial. Perhaps that is why the Asians like it so much.MaxDreinoreply@blogger.com