SCHEDULEMinor amendments to the Patents Act 1977
European patent (UK): payment of renewal fee following restoration
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In section 77 of that Act (European patents (UK)), after subsection (5) insert—
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Where, under the European Patent Convention, a European patent (UK) is revoked and subsequently restored (including where it is revoked by the Board of Appeal and subsequently restored by the Enlarged Board of Appeal), any fee that would have been imposed in relation to the patent after the revocation but before the restoration is payable within the prescribed period following the restoration.