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PACK No. 6

 

APPLICATION NOTICE IN THE PATENTS COURT[1]

 

  1. Application Notice (to be stamped with the fee and left at Court)
  2. Your copy of the Application Notice (to be stamped with the issuing office seal and kept by you as your original)
  3. An additional copy for each respondent to the application (to be stamped with the issuing office seal and taken away by you for service – although it is permitted to serve a photocopy of no 2 above)
  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. A note of the date agreed with the other side for the hearing.
  6. Issuing fee of £100 [2]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
    2. Chancery Listing Office, Room WG04, where the Application will be issued (although in practice you may well have left this to counsel’s clerk, who will also have liaised with the other side in order to provide a note of the agreed date – 5 above)

 

[1] Although Masters do have limited jurisdiction in the Patents Court – CPR PD 63.8 – it is assumed that the application will be to a judge.

[2] Or £50 if notice is not being given to any other party or it is an application by consent.

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