Laminate Flooring: Court denies B&Q and Berry Floors request
- June 02, 2006
- • Джерело: Unilin
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In a case of patent infringement on Unilin's glueless technology, The Patent County Court in London has in its decision of May 26th 2006 denied B&Q and Berry Floors request to stay the enforcement of the final judgement of 30 July 2004 issued by the Court of Appeal. The case introduced in 2002, is about the Berryloc glueless flooring product. In the aforementioned judgement the Court of Appeal had dismissed Berry & B&Q’s validity attack and confirmed Unilin's claim that the submitted Berryloc products infringe Unilin's European Patent EP 1 024 234.
In its decision of May 26th 2006, the Patent County Court denied B&Q and Berry Floors request to stay the damage /account of profits inquiry. As a consequence, B&Q, Responsive Designs and Berry Floor are now ordered to disclose before 22 July 2006 the volumes of infringing Berryloc sold, the revenues realised from infringing Berryloc and an estimate of all the costs attributable from which an estimate of the profits made on infringing Berryloc can be deduced. Unilin has assigned highly qualified forensic experts to assess all data provided.
In its decision of May 26th 2006, the Patent County Court denied B&Q and Berry Floors request to stay the damage /account of profits inquiry. As a consequence, B&Q, Responsive Designs and Berry Floor are now ordered to disclose before 22 July 2006 the volumes of infringing Berryloc sold, the revenues realised from infringing Berryloc and an estimate of all the costs attributable from which an estimate of the profits made on infringing Berryloc can be deduced. Unilin has assigned highly qualified forensic experts to assess all data provided.