(This note is not part of the Rules)
These Rules prescribe, for the purposes of section 276 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the conditions to be satisfied by mixed partnerships or bodies corporate where all the partners or, as the case may be, directors are not patent agents in order for the partnership or body corporate to carry on business under the name or any description containing the words “patent agents” or “patent attorneys”, or describe itself or permit itself to be described as such.