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Fair Trading Act 1973

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101Patent or design pooling agreements

In section 8 of the Act of 1956, at the beginning of subsection (4) there shall be inserted the words " Subject to section 8A of this Act " ; and after that section there shall be inserted the following section:—

8A(1)No licence, assignment or agreement shall by virtue of section 8(4) of this Act be precluded from being an agreement to which Part I of this Act applies if—

(a)in the case of an agreement, it is a patent or design pooling agreement, or

(b)whether being a licence, assignment or agreement, it is a licence, assignment or agreement granted or made in pursuance (directly or indirectly) of a patent or design pooling agreement.

(2)In this section (subject to subsection (4)) 'patent or design pooling agreement' means an agreement to which the parties are or include at least three persons (in this sub-section referred to as ' principal parties ') each of whom has an interest in one or more patents or registered designs, whereby each of the principal parties agrees, in respect of patents or registered designs in which he has an interest, or in respect of patents or registered designs in which he has or may during the currency of the agreement acquire an interest,—

(a)to grant an interest in one or more such patents or registered designs to one or more of the other principal parties, or to one or more of those parties and to other persons, or

(b)to grant an interest in at least one such patent or registered design to a third person for the purpose of enabling that person to grant an interest in it to one or more of the other principal parties, or to one or more of those parties and to other persons,

and ' interest', in relation to a patent or registered design, mean an interest as proprietor or licensee of the patent or registered design or an interest consisting of such rights as a person has by virtue of having applied for a patent or for the registration of a design or by virtue of having acquired the right to apply for a patent or for the registration of a design.

(3)For the purposes of this section a licence, assignment or agreement—

(a)shall be taken to be granted or made directly in pursuance of a patent or design pooling agreement if it is granted or made in pursuance of provisions of that agreement such as are mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section, and

(b)shall be taken to be granted or made indirectly in pursuance of a patent or design pooling agreement if it is granted or made by a third person to whom an interest has been granted in pursuance of provisions of that agreement such as are mentioned in paragraph (b) of that subsection.

(4)In relation to any interest held by or granted to any two or more persons jointly, subsection (2) of this section shall apply as if those persons were one person by whom the interest is held or to whom it is granted, and accordingly those persons shall be treated for the purposes of that subsection as together constituting one party.

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