Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

83 Patent fees etc. and expenses

Notwithstanding anything in section 74, in computing the profits or gains of a trade there may be deducted as expenses any fees paid or expenses incurred—

(a) in obtaining for the purposes of the trade the grant of a patent, an extension of the term of a patent, the registration of a design or trade mark, the extension of the period of copyright in a design or the renewal of registration of a trade mark, or

(b) in connection with a rejected or abandoned application for a patent made for the purposes of the trade.

References in this section to a trade mark include references to a service mark within the meaning of the [1984 c. 19.] Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1984.