Fabio Perini S.P.A. v. LPC Group Plc and others, Court of Appeal Civil Division (High Court of England and Wales (Patents Court)), 4 April 2012

The High Court considered the extent to which a claim for damages in a patent infringement case could be extended at the damages inquiry stage. It found that whilst it is just and convenient to extend the inquiry to infringing acts of the same type as that on which the Court in the main action on liability had ruled, the patentee was not permitted to reopen a case of infringement that had previously failed.

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