Patents Act 1977 (c. 37)

SCHEDULES

[F1 SCHEDULE A1 U.K. DEROGATION FROM PATENT PROTECTION IN RESPECT OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. A1 inserted (28.7.2000) by S.I. 2000/2037, reg. 8(1), Sch. 1

Interpretation U.K.

1 In this Schedule—

• F2 ...

• “farmer’s own holding” means any land which a farmer actually exploits for plant growing, whether as his property or otherwise managed under his own responsibility and on his own account;

• “the gazette” means the gazette published under section 34 of the Plant Variety and Seeds Act 1964 F3 ;

• “protected material” means plant propagating material which incorporates material subject to a patent;

• “relevant activity” means the use by a farmer of the product of his harvest for propagation or multiplication by him on his own holding, where the product of the harvest constitutes or contains protected material;

• “relevant rights holder” means the proprietor of a patent to which protected material is subject;

• “seed” includes seed potatoes;

• “seed year” means the period from 1st July in one year to 30th June in the following year, both dates inclusive.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in Sch. A1 para. 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 39(a)

F3 1964 c. 14.