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PACK No. 2

 

CLAIM FORM IN THE PATENTS COURT

 

  1. Claim Form (to be stamped with the fee and left at Court)
  2. Your copy of the Claim Form (to be stamped with the issuing office seal and kept by you as your original)
  3. An additional copy for each Defendant (to be stamped with the issuing office seal and taken away by you for service)
  4. An extra copy because you either will have undercounted, or will convince yourself while sitting on tube travelling to court that this is what you have done.
  5. Issuing fee of £2,100[1] in the form of either:
    1. Cash; or
    2. Cheque made out to H M Courts Service;
    3. Cheque guarantee card if (b) is a personal cheque.

Note: Credit cards, debit cards and Oyster cards are not accepted.

  1. Map showing the High Court building’s complex so that you can find:
    1. Room E01, the fee’s room on the lower ground floor in the south east corner of the complex; and or
    2. Room TMB 504 on the fifth floor of Thomas More Building.

The reason for the “and/or”, of course, is that if you are only issuing one Claim Form you can both pay the fee and issue the form in room 504 up to 4 pm.

  1. A large stamped envelope addressed to your favourite process server, if you plan to get the service copies to them as quickly as possible; in which event you must also include:
  2. A complete Response Pack for each Defendant plus the Particulars of Claim, if they are not incorporated in the Claim Form but are intended to be served with it.

 

[1] This assumes that the claim is for an injunction plus damage enquiry/account of profits and must therefore be treated as one where the sum to be recovered is “unlimited”.  See Ryanlaw practice note at: http://www.ryanlaw.co.uk/new_page_3.htm 

and the schedule of High Court fees at:

 http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/docs/fees/guide_civil_proceedings_fees_06042006.htm#county

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