High Court (Patents Court)

This court is a specialist court within the Chancery Division of the High Court. It is also one of the Business and Property Courts. It specialises in cases involving patents, registered designs and plant varieties. Typically it handles cases where damages sought are over £500,000. Cases less than £500,000 are typically handled by the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court.

This court began to regularly transfer judgments to The National Archives in 2022. The oldest judgment from this court included in Find Case Law is from 2003.

You can read more about the Patents Court on the Judiciary website.

Documents on Find Case Law

We currently hold 663 documents from the High Court (Patents Court), from 2003 to 2024.

Finding older documents

You can read more about how to find older patent records in Intellectual property: patents for invention research guide; Intellectual property: registered designs 1839-1991 research guide or Intellectual property: trademarks 1876 -1938 research guide.