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Patents Act 1977

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104Privilege for communications with patent agents relating to patent proceedings

(1)This section applies to any communication made for the purpose of any pending or contemplated patent proceedings, being either—

(a)a communication between the patent agent of a party to those proceedings and that party or any other person ; or

(b)a communication between a party to those proceedings and a person other than his patent agent made for the purpose of obtaining, or in response to a request for, information which that party is seeking for the purpose of submitting it to his patent agent.

(2)For the purposes of subsection (1) above a communication made by or to a person acting—

(i)on behalf of a patent agent; or

(ii)on behalf of a party to any pending or contemplated proceedings,

shall be treated as made by or to that patent agent or party, as the case may be.

(3)In any legal proceedings other than criminal proceedings a communication to which this section applies shall be privileged from disclosure in like manner as if any proceedings before the comptroller or the relevant convention court for the purpose of which the communication was made were proceedings before the court (within the meaning of this Act) and the patent agent in in question had been the solicitor of the party concerned

(4)In this section—

  • " legal proceedings " includes proceedings before the comptroller ;

  • " patent agent " means an individual registered as a patent agent in the register of patent agents, a company lawfully practising as a patent agent in the United Kingdom or a person who satisfies the condition mentioned in section 84(1) or (3) above;

  • " patent proceedings " means proceedings under this Act or any of the relevant conventions before the court, the comptroller or the relevant convention court, whether contested or uncontested and including an application for a patent;

  • " party ", in relation to any contemplated proceedings, means a prospective party to the proceedings; and

  • " the relevant conventions " means the European Patent Convention, the Community Patent Convention and the Patent Co-operation Treaty.

(5)This section shall not extend to Scotland.

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