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27 November 2014Big PharmaMark Didmon and Simon Curtis

IPEC: the right forum for life sciences?

In 2010, the Patents County Court (PCC) updated its rules with the express intention of providing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with quick and relatively cheap access to specialist justice in the IP field. Since then, the PCC, which was later rebranded as the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), has been a runaway success.

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