Ungar v Sugg

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1892
CourtCourt of Appeal
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5 cases
  • Nichia Corporation v Argos Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 July 2007
    ...not the fault of the law: it is the fault of the mode of conducting the law in a patent case. That is what causes all this mischief, Ungar v Sugg (1899) 9 RPC at 117. 2 What causes cost is time: time spent by lawyers, experts and the parties themselves. Lawyers' and experts' time is normall......
  • Calidad Pty Ltd v Seiko Epson Corporation
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 12 November 2020
    ...[2019] AC 649 at 669–671 [25]–[30]. 379 General Tire [1975] 1 WLR 819 at 826; [1975] 2 All ER 173 at 179. 380 See, eg, Ungar v Sugg (1892) 9 RPC 113 at 117; Meters Ltd v Metropolitan Gas Meters Ltd (1911) 28 RPC 157 at 164–165; General Tire [1975] 1 WLR 819 at 827–835; [1975] 2 All ER 1......
  • Fresenius Kabi Deutschland Gmbh and Others v Carefusion 303, Inc.
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 8 November 2011
    ...costs. So why are patent cases different? 4 The patentee may refer him to the well-known words of Lord Esher MR in Ungar v Sugg (1892) 9 RPC 113, 117: "a man had better have his patent infringed, or have anything happen to him in this world, short of losing all his family by influenza, than......
  • Merck & Company Inc. v Generics (UK) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 27 November 2003
    ...cost of patent litigation has been a source of concern here for many years. It is worth remembering what Lord Esher said in Ungar v Sugg (1892) 9 RPC 113: "Well, then, the moment there is a patent case one can see it before the case is opened, or called in the list. How can we see it? We ca......
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