{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/16",
  "legislation_title": "Patents Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Enforcement of damages",
  "text": "In section 61 of the 1977 Act (proceedings for infringement of a patent), after subsection (6) there is inserted—\n“(7) If the comptroller awards any sum by way of damages on a reference under subsection (3) above, then—\n(a) in England and Wales, the sum shall be recoverable, if a county court so orders, by execution issued from the county court or otherwise as if it were payable under an order of that court;\n(b) in Scotland, payment of the sum may be enforced in like manner as an extract registered decree arbitral bearing a warrant for execution issued by the sheriff court of any sheriffdom in Scotland;\n(c) in Northern Ireland, payment of the sum may be enforced as if it were a money judgment.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 11 in force at 1.1.2005 by S.I. 2004/3205, art. 2(d) (with art. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/16/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:09.517783+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."
}