Patents Act 1977 (c. 37)

SCHEDULES

[F1 SCHEDULE A3 U.K. EUROPEAN PATENT WITH UNITARY EFFECT

Textual Amendments

F1 Schs. A3, A4 inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)) by The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/388), arts. 1(2), 2(10) (with art. 3)

Interpretation U.K.

5. U.K. In this Schedule—

(a) “Contracting Member State” has the same meaning as in Article 2(c) of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court; and

(b) the following expressions have the same meanings as in Article 2 of the Unitary Patent Regulation—

Participating Member State;

Register for unitary patent protection.]