Claim No: IP-2023-000054 - [2025] EWHC 563 (IPEC)

The ‘566 Patent is also expressed to be for a pathway lighting unit for a walled pathway. The specification notes that such a pathway may provide the most direct or readily available route for laying power cables, signalling cables, telecommunications cables, water pipes and gas pipes (lines 5 – 8 of page 1), and that pathways may have side walls to which means for supporting cables or pipes may be mounted (lines 14-15 of page 1) to avoid the trouble of digging up the ground to lay such cables or pipes, and allow easy access for maintenance in the future (lines 15-17 of page 1). The problem sought to be solved by the invention is set out from line 18 of page 1, namely: “However, over time, an increasing numbers [sic] of cable supports can obstruct each other and, in extreme cases, dominate use of the side wall leaving little available space for other uses. This problem is difficult to solve if the cables, pipes etc… continue to serve a useful purpose and cannot be relocated to make space available without major upheaval to the networks they serve.”

The invention in Claim 1 of ‘566 is really that of ‘509, save that the lighting support is elongate and includes a means for supporting at least one cable or pipe along an axis of elongation of the support.

Claim 1, split into integers for convenience and highlighted to show the differences from the integers of Claim 1 of ‘509, is: