Court of Appeal Rules in Favour of Ultraframe In Litigation with Burnden Group Plc

Wednesday 20th July 2005

20th July 2005

Court of Appeal Rules in Favour of Ultraframe In Litigation with Burnden Group Plc

Today, Ultraframe announces that the Court of Appeal has handed down a favourable judgment in two legal actions. The two actions were pursued by Burnden Group Plc ("Burnden"), and involved claims that Ultraframe (UK) Limited, an Ultraframe Director and two wholly owned subsidiaries of Ultraframe, Northstar and Seaquest, allegedly infringed Burnden's intellectual property rights.

This case involved Burnden buying old and invalid intellectual property in an attempt to restrict competition in the conservatory market. The Court of Appeal has dismissed both of Burnden's actions in their entirety. Burnden will therefore receive no damages in respect of the multi-million pound claims that Burnden brought. Burnden is also expected to be ordered to pay Ultraframe's costs in this matter.

This Court of Appeal judgment follows the separate Eurocell Court of Appeal judgment a couple of weeks ago when Ultraframe’s patent relating to its intellectual property in the Ultralite 500 roofing system was held to be infringed by Eurocell’s Pinnacle 500 system. Ultraframe have since obtained an injunction preventing Eurocell’s sale of the infringing product and expect to recover multi million pound damages.

Linda Doughty, Ultraframe (UK) Ltd, Marketing Director: “We are pleased to have achieved two significant victories in the Court of Appeal in the past few weeks, which support our substantial ongoing investment in innovative, market leading products. We are keen to continue to improve standards in the industry for the benefit of our employees, customers and shareholders.”