‘Documents disclosed in the course of litigation under the CPR to an opposing party may only be used by that party for the purposes of that litigation unless they are read to or by the court, or referred to, at a hearing which has been held in public, the court gives permission or the party who disclosed the document and the person to whom the document belongs agree: CPR 31.22(1). In the vast majority of cases, this rule gives adequate protection against misuse of disclosure documents. It is not uncommon in intellectual property and other types of litigation, however, for highly confidential documents to be subject to more restrictive measures designed to prevent the documents from entering the public domain or being used for collateral purposes. These appeals are concerned with the treatment of commercially confidential materials in the context of litigation about standard essential patents ‘
Judges:
Lord Justice Floyd
Citations:
[2020] EWCA Civ 1562
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Appeal from – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Another v Archos Sa and Others PatC 9-Oct-2020
This litigation concerns standard essential patents (‘SEPs’) in the mobile telecommunications field. . .
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Intellectual Property
Updated: 08 April 2022; Ref: scu.656220