{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-63.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-63.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/63.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "63.1",
  "heading": "Scope of this Part and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Part applies to all intellectual property claims including—\n(a) registered intellectual property rights such as—\n(i) patents;\n(ii) registered designs; and\n(iii) registered trade marks; and\n(b) unregistered intellectual property rights such as—\n(i) copyright;\n(ii) design right;\n(iii) the right to prevent passing off; and\n(iv) the other rights set out in Practice Direction 63.\n(2) In this Part—\n(a) “the 1977 Act” means the Patents Act 1977;\n(b) “the 1988 Act” means the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;\n(c) “the 1994 Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1994;\n(d) “the Comptroller” means the Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks;\n(e) “patent” means a patent under the 1977 Act or a supplementary protection certificate granted by the Patent Office under Article 10(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1768/92 or of Regulation (EC) No. 1610/96 of the European Parliament and the Council and includes any application for a patent or supplementary protection certificate;\n(f) “Patents Court” means the Patents Court of the High Court constituted as part of the Business and Property Division by section 6(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981;\n(g) ‘Intellectual Property Enterprise Court’ means a specialist list established within the Business and Property Division;\n(h) ‘enterprise judge’ means a judge authorised by the President of the Business and Property Division to sit in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court;\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(j) “the register” means whichever of the following registers is appropriate—\n(i) patents maintained by the Comptroller under section 32 of the 1977 Act;\n(ii) designs maintained by the registrar under section 17 of the Registered Designs Act 1949;\n(iii) trade marks maintained by the registrar under section 63 of the 1994 Act;\n(iv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(v) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(vi) plant varieties maintained by the Controller under regulation 12 of the Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations 1998; and\n(vii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(k) “the registrar” means—\n(i) the registrar of trade marks; or\n(ii) the registrar of registered designs,\nwhichever is appropriate.\n(3) Save as provided in rule 63.27, claims to which this Part applies are allocated to the multi-track. Rule 26.4(1) applies save for the modification that the court will send the parties a notice requiring the parties to file proposed directions by the date specified in the notice. For a claim which is allocated to the multi-track by this rule, rule 26.4(2) and rules 26.5 to 26.18 do not apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 63 substituted (1.10.2009) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/2092), rule 1(2), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 63.1(1)(b)(iv) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3390), rules 1(2), 38(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 63.1(2)(f) substituted (1.10.2026) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/817), rules 1(4), 20(1)(a) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 63.1(2)(g) substituted (1.10.2013) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.7) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/1974), rules 2, 26(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 63.1(2)(g) substituted (1.10.2026) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/817), rules 1(4), 20(1)(b) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Rule 63.1(2)(h) substituted (1.10.2013) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.7) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/1974), rules 2, 26(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 63.1(2)(h) substituted (1.10.2026) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/817), rules 1(4), 20(1)(c) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Rule 63.1(2)(i) omitted (6.4.2010) by virtue of The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3390), rules 1(2), 38(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Rule 63.1(2)(j)(iv) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/521), regs. 1(1), 13(2) (with reg. 24) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1493, regs. 1(1), 9(2)(g); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Rule 63.1(2)(j)(v) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/521), regs. 1(1), 13(2) (with reg. 24) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1493, regs. 1(1), 9(2)(g); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Rule 63.1(2)(j)(vii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/521), regs. 1(1), 13(2) (with reg. 24) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1493, regs. 1(1), 9(2)(g); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in rule 63.1(3) substituted (1.10.2012) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2012 (S.I. 2012/2208), rules 1, 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in rule 63.1(3) inserted (1.10.2013) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.7) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/1974), rules 2, 26(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Word in rule 63.1(3) substituted (1.10.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/572), rules 1(1), 20(a) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Word in rule 63.1(3) substituted (1.10.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/572), rules 1(1), 20(b) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in rule 63.1(3) substituted (1.10.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/572), rules 1(1), 20(c) (with rule 2)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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