Patents Act 2004 Explanatory Notes

Schedule 1paragraph 6; Schedule 2paragraphs 12, 13, 20-22, 25(c), 25(d) and 27

36.These provisions remove redundant provisions in the 1977 Act which relate to the Community Patent Convention (“CPC>”) which has never come into force. The effect on the Act of the CPC (as amended by the 1989 Agreement on the Community Patent) is therefore confined to the interpretation of those provisions of the 1977 Act which correspond to the CPC by virtue of section 130(7).

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