10 Amendment of the Patents Act 1977
1 Section 30 of that Act (nature of, and transactions in, patents and applications for patents) shall be amended as follows.
2 In subsection (6)—
(a) for the words “the parties to the transaction” there shall be substituted “the assignor or mortgagor”;
(b) the words “ or in the case of a body corporate” to the end of the subsection shall be omitted.
3 After subsection (6) there shall be inserted—

“6A If a transaction mentioned in subsection (6) above is by a body corporate, references in that subsection to such a transaction being signed by or on behalf of the assignor or mortgagor shall be taken to include references to its being under the seal of the body corporate.”

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