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Products Inc & Anr v Zebra Technologies Europe

[2022] EWHC 640 (Ch)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice, Chancery Division (Patents Court)
Year2002
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

A foreign (overseas) parent company is not validly served within the jurisdiction at the address of its English subsidiary under CPR 6.9 unless, applying Adams v Cape Industries, the parent itself carries on activities or has a place of business at that address; the mere existence of a UK subsidiary does not give the parent a place of business there.

Area of Law

General

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