19 Jan 2015
BULOVA CORPORATION AND ANOTHER v. SAN MA INDUSTRIAL LTD
- Citation
- BULOVA CORPORATION AND ANOTHER v. SAN MA INDUSTRIAL LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1912/2013
The defendant was the true attacker because it initiated enforcement by sending multiple threatening letters and thus for purposes of security for costs is in the position of a plaintiff; the patent was assigned to a company effectively controlled by the patentee to avoid liability and the company appears to have no other business and produced no valuation, giving reasonable grounds to believe it would be unable to pay the plaintiffs' costs; accordingly the court ordered security for costs of HK$800,000 to be paid into court within 21 days, with liberty to apply for extension or further secur…