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+ - New Small Claims Patten cour in UK->

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Saphati writes "The UK government introduced new rules on 1 October 2012, ..."which created a new procedure for dealing with low value claims in the Patents County Court (“PCC”). These are designed to deal with various intellectual property (“IP”) claims worth £5,000 or less."

That should make it harder to bully small patent holders in the UK. It also means that the patent courts will be freed up and able to hear bigger cases faster.

It seems the UK government is not totally useless."

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