Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

(a)

“the Act” means the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988^f1;

(b)

“legal representative” means a person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007^f2, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which constitutes the exercise of a right of audience or the conduct of litigation (within the meaning of that Act);

(c)

“patents county court” means a county court designated as a patents county court under section 287(1) of the Act; and

(d)

“relevant claim” means a claim for damages or an account of profits which—

(i)

is one to which rule 63.13 of the Civil Procedure Rules^f3 applies, but

(ii)

does not relate to matters within the special jurisdiction of a patents county court under section 287(1) of the Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1988 c.48; section 287 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, section 15(1) and Schedule 4 Part 1, paragraphs 198 and 200(1) to (3).
f2: 2007 c. 29.
f3: S.I. 1998/3132, as last amended by S.I. 2011/88.