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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 399 (IPEC)
Case No: IP-2022-000067
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENTERPRISE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice, Rolls Building
Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL
Date: 27 February 2025
Before :
HIS HONOUR JUDGE HACON
Between :
PREVAYL INNOVATIONS LIMITED | Claimant |
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WHOOP INC. | Defendant |
Richard Davis KC (instructed by Appleyard Lees IP LLP) for the Claimant
Henry Ward (instructed by Simmons & Simmons LLP) for the Defendant
Hearing dates: 20-21 January 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 27 February 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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HIS HONOUR JUDGE HACON
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- Judge Hacon
- The skilled team
- The experts
- The Patent
- The prior art
- US 845
- Novelty
- Inventive step – claim 1
- Inventive step – claim 2
- PCT 853
- Infringement – the issues
- The law on indirect infringement
- Means relating to an essential element
- Knowledge and intention
- Means suitable for putting the invention into effect
- Summary of the law under s.60(2)
- Infringement – this case
- Conclusions