CIPA, the organisation representing the UK's 1,500 patent attorneys, has welcomed radical proposals to slash the cost of patent court cases. Under the proposals, businesses will have the chance to enforce their patent rights, trade marks and designs for a fraction of the existing costs.rnThe Intellectual Property Court Users' Committee has published proposals to reduce the cost of a patent or trade mark court case from its current levels of between £500,000 and £1 million to a maximum of £50,000. Once implemented, this will have the effect of making the UK among the lowest-cost jurisdictions in Europe, rather than the most expensive, as it is at present.
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