Fintech Patents - Communisis Plc v The TALL Group of Companies Ltd
Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Melissa Clarke) Communisis Plc v The TALL Group of Companies Ltd and others [2020] EWHC 3089 (IPEC) (17 Nov 2020) This was a claim for patent infringement and a counterclaim for revocation on grounds of obviousness and excluded matter. The action and counterclaim came on for trial before Judge Melissa Clarke on 14 and 15 July 2920. By her judgment of 17 Nov 2020 she found the patent to be invalid and not to have been infringed (see Communisis Plc v The TALL Group of Companies Ltd and other s [2020] EWHC 3089 (IPEC) (17 Nov 2020). The Parties The claimant was Communisis Plc, the proprietor of UK patent no GB2512450 entitled "A method of generating a payment/credit instrument", the patent in suit. The defendants were The TALL Group of Companies Ltd and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Checkprint Ltd, and DLRT Limited. Each party manufactures cheques, cheque books and cheque fraud prevention systems...