Patents Act 1977

[F1 4. (1) For the purposes of enforcement of a decision or order of the Unified Patent Court— U.K.

(a) the decision or order has the same force and effect,

(b) proceedings for or with respect to enforcement of the decision or order may be taken, and

(c) the enforcing court, or in a relevant Northern Ireland case the Enforcement of Judgments Office, has the same powers in relation to the enforcement of the decision or order,

as if the decision or order had originally been made by the enforcing court.

(2) The enforcing court, or in a relevant Northern Ireland case the Enforcement of Judgments Office, may enforce a mediation settlement in the same manner as a judgment or order of the enforcing court.

(3) In this paragraph—

• “enforcing court” means—

  (a)

  as respects England and Wales, the High Court,

  (b)

  as respects Scotland, the Court of Session, and

  (c)

  as respects Northern Ireland, the High Court in Northern Ireland;

• “mediation settlement” means a settlement reached through mediation using the facilities of the patent mediation and arbitration centre established under Article 35 of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court;

• “relevant Northern Ireland case” means a case where—

  (a)

  the decision or order of the Unified Patent Court would, if it had been given by the High Court in Northern Ireland, or

  (b)

  the mediation settlement would, if enforced in the same manner as a judgment or order of the High Court in Northern Ireland,

  be enforced by the Enforcement of Judgments Office under the Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Schs. A3, A4 inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)) by The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/388), arts. 1(2), 2(10) (with art. 3)