Part III Miscellaneous and General
Legal Proceedings
C1E1C2103 Extension of privilege for communications with solicitors relating to patent proceedings.
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It is hereby declared that the rule of law which confers privilege from disclosure in legal proceedings in respect of communications made with a solicitor or a person acting on his behalf, or in relation to information obtained or supplied for submission to a solicitor or a person acting on his behalf, for the purpose of any pending or contemplated proceedings before a court in the United Kingdom extends to such communications so made for the purpose of any pending or contemplated—
a
proceedings before the comptroller under this Act or any of the relevant conventions, or
b
proceedings before the relevant convention court under any of those conventions.
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In this section—
“legal proceedings” includes proceedings before the comptroller;
the references to legal proceedings and pending or contemplated proceedings include references to applications for a patent or a European patent and to international applications for a patent; and
“the relevant conventions” means the European Patent Convention, F1... and the Patent Co-operation Treaty.
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This section shall not extend to Scotland.