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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-county-court-financial-limits-no-2-order-2011/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2222",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents County Court (Financial Limits) (No. 2) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-county-court-financial-limits-no-2-order-2011",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Financial limits",
  "text": "(1) In proceedings in a patents county court relating to a relevant claim, the amount or value of that claim shall not exceed £500,000, subject to paragraph (3).\n(2) In relation to a relevant claim in a patents county court, the county court limit is £500,000 for the purposes of section 17 of the County Courts Act 1984 (which allows abandonment of part of a claim to give a county court jurisdiction).\n(3) If the parties agree, by a memorandum signed by them or their respective legal representatives, that a patents county court shall have jurisdiction in proceedings in relation to a relevant claim, that court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the proceedings.\n(4) In determining the amount or value of a relevant claim for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), a claim for—\n(a) interest, other than interest payable under an agreement, or\n(b) costs,\nshall be disregarded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c.28; the definition of “the county court limit” in section 147(1) was amended by article 2(8) of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 1991/724."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2222/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:56:02.739512+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."
}