Interim Injunctions - AutoStore Technology AS v Ocado Group Plc
Ocado Van Author Tomjhpage Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia J ane Lambert Patents Court (HH Judge Hacon) AutoStore Technology AS v Ocado Group Plc and other s [2021] EWHC 1614 (Pat) (11 June 2021) This was an application by Ocado Plc, several of its subsidiaries and a supplier of equipment to the Ocado companies ("Ocado") for an interim injunction to restrain AutoStore Technology AS ("AutoStore") from disclosing an allegedly confidential and privileged document to the US International Trade Commission . The document had been delivered to Ocado in "without prejudice" negotiations to settle various disputes between the parties. In the proceedings before the Commission, AutoSrore alleged that Ocado had infringed several of its US patents. Ocado pleaded that AutoStore was estopped from alleging infringement on the ground that AutosSrore had previously assured Ocado that Ocado had not infringed those patents. AutoStore cla...