Amendment of the Patents Act 197710

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.