UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 42.29 Patents, trade marks and designs

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 42.29

42.29 Patents, trade marks and designs

(cf SCR Part 52A, rule 28)

(1) This rule applies to proceedings in the Supreme Court.

(2) If--

(a) an action or counter-claim for infringement of a patent, of a registered trade mark, or of the monopoly in a registered design, or

(b) an application or counter-claim for revocation of a patent, or

(c) an application for cancellation of the registration of a design or counter-claim for the rectification of the Register of Designs,

proceeds to hearing, costs are not to be allowed to the parties delivering any particulars of breaches, or of objections in respect of any questions raised in those particulars and relating to that patent, trade mark or design, except in so far as those questions or particulars are certified by the Supreme Court to have been proved or to have been reasonable and proper.