Rule 30 Transitional provisions

proceedings started in a patents county court may be continued in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court as if they had been started in that court;

anything done in accordance with the rules which applied to a patents county court is to be treated as if it had been done in accordance with any rules applicable to corresponding proceedings in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court; and

any act, judgment or order of a patents county court has the same effect as if it had been an act, judgment or order of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court and, accordingly, further proceedings may be taken in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in respect of such an act, judgment or order.