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
- HCA1831/2013
Where a patentee has sent threatening letters and defends a threats action by asserting infringement, the patentee occupies the position of a plaintiff for security for costs; where the patent was assigned to a company that has no other business and is majority owned by the assignor, that company may be treated as a nominee and there is reason to doubt its ability to pay; accordingly security for costs should be ordered. Applying a broad-brush assessment, HK$800,000 was a just amount to secure costs up to exchange of witness statements and expert reports.