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ASI Solutions PLC v Nu -Phalt Limited (Patent) [2006] UKIntelP o15406 (27 June 2006)
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ASI Solutions PLC v Nu-Phalt Limited [2006] UKIntelP o15406 (27 June 2006)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/154/06
- Concerning rights in
- GB 2344369
- Hearing Officer
- Mr P Back
- Decision date
- 27 June 2006
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- ASI Solutions PLC v Nu-Phalt Limited
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Sections 13, 37, 72
- Keywords
- Costs, Entitlement
- Related Decisions
- [2005] UKIntelP o29205
Summary
The decision addresses the issue of whether or not it is appropriate in this particular case to depart from the comptroller’s published scale in making an award of costs. ASI identified four reasons why it believed the behaviour of Nu-Phalt caused it to incur unreasonable additional cost. These were that they maintained a case that was bound to fail; that their behaviour was an abuse of process; that their general behaviour caused ASI unnecessary expense and that they failed to settle. It was held that there was no basis in any of these to justify a cost award off the published scale.