Dr Dominic Adair

Partner, Bristows

Dr Adair is a partner in the patent litigation group at Bristows LLP in London. He has a science background to PhD level which gives him an excellent grounding in the technical aspects of patent disputes.

He has extensive experience of cross-border litigation in and beyond Europe and has worked on all aspects of the product life cycle in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector: from freedom to operate analyses and early stage risk assessments of generic and biosimilar competition to end-stage litigation on patents, term extensions and anti-trust issues.

Dr Adair writes regularly on reported patent cases in the UK and at the EPO. He is a member of the European Patent Lawyers Association, an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and holds office as Honorary Secretary and Vice-President of AIPPI UK.

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Particulars of Claim—patent infringement claim

Precedents

This is a Precedent Particulars of Claim for use in relation to a claim for patent infringement. The Particulars of Claim must set out briefly the acts the patent owner complains about and what relief it wants the court to order. The Particulars of Claim must be served with or soon after the claim. The claimant must serve as part of, or with, its Particulars of Claim, Particulars of Infringement showing which of the claims of the patent are alleged to be infringed and setting out at least one instance of each type of infringement alleged.

Particulars of Infringement—patent infringement claim

Precedents

This is a Precedent Particulars of Infringement to accompany the Particulars of Claim for a patent infringement claim. The Particulars of Infringement must state which of the patent claims are alleged to have been infringed and must provide details of at least one example of each type of commercial act of infringement alleged to have occurred in the UK.