Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18)

SCHEDULE Minor amendments to the Patents Act 1977

Assertion of third party rights where application terminated

2 In section 20B of that Act (effect of reinstatement of patent application), after subsection (4) insert—

“(4A) The right conferred by subsection (4) does not become exercisable until the end of the period during which a request may be made under this Act, or under the rules, for an extension of the period referred to in section 20A(1).”