Patents Act 2004
Amendments of the 1977 Act relating to international obligations
1Methods of treatment or diagnosis
2Amendment of patents after grant
3Relief for partially valid patent
4Revocation
5Further amendments relating to international obligations
Other amendments of the 1977 Act
6Remedies in entitlement proceedings
7Restrictions on applications abroad by United Kingdom residents
8Term of patent and periods allowed for payment of renewal fees
9Co-ownership
10Compensation of employees for certain inventions
11Enforcement of damages
12Threats of infringement proceedings
13Opinions by Patent Office as to validity or infringement
14Costs and expenses in infringement proceedings etc
15Security for costs
Supplemental
16Amendments, repeals and revocations
17Commencement etc
18Short title and extent
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Amendments relating to international obligations
1The 1977 Act is amended as follows.
2In section 77 (effect of European patent (UK)), in subsection...
3(1) Section 78 (effect of filing an application for a...
4In section 80 (authentic text of European patents and patent...
5(1) Section 81 (conversion of European patent applications) is amended...
6Sections 86 and 87 (implementation of Community Patent Convention and...
7Section 89(4) (circumstances in which application treated as an international...
8In section 89B(2) (adaptation of provisions in relation to international...
9(1) Section 130 (interpretation) is amended as follows.
SCHEDULE 2Minor and consequential amendments
1(1) The 1977 Act is amended as follows.
2In section 1 (patentable inventions), in subsection (1)(d), after “subsections...
3In section 2 (novelty), subsection (6) is omitted.
4In section 4 (industrial application)— (a) in subsection (1), “Subject...
5In section 12 (reference before grant of foreign or convention...
6In section 16(1) (publication of application), after “section 22 below”...
7In section 20B (inserted by the Regulatory Reform Order) (effect...
8(1) Section 22 (information prejudicial to defence of realm or...
9In section 24 (publication and certificate of grant), after subsection...
10(1) Section 38 (effect of transfer of patent under section...
11In section 41(10) (method of enforcing in Scotland certain orders...
12Section 53(1) (compulsory licences: Community Patent Convention) is omitted.
13Section 60(4) (meaning of infringement: Community Patent Convention) is omitted....
14In section 61 (proceedings for infringement of patent), in subsection...
15In section 62(2) (discretion to refuse damages etc for infringement...
16In section 63 (relief for infringement of partially valid patent),...
17In section 70 (remedy for groundless threats of infringement proceedings),...
18In section 72(1) (power to revoke patents on application), “on...
19In section 75 (amendment of patent in infringement or revocation...
20In section 91(1) (evidence relating to the conventions: judicial notice),...
21In section 95 (financial provision)— (a) in subsection (1), “the...
22In sections 103 and 105 (legal privilege), in the definition...
23In section 117A (inserted by the Regulatory Reform Order) (effect...
24(1) Section 120 (hours of business and excluded days) is...
25In section 121 (comptroller’s annual report)— (a) for “1st June”...
26(1) Section 123 (rules) is amended as follows.
27In section 130(1) (interpretation)— (a) the definition of “Community patent”...
28In section 131 (Northern Ireland), at the end there is...
SCHEDULE 3Repeals

Patents Act 2004

2004 c. 16

An Act to amend the law relating to patents.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—