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"section-52-2-c"><span class="LegAddition">(c)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the comptroller shall consider any opposition in deciding whether to grant the application.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-52-3"><span class="LegAddition">(3)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">If it appears to the comptroller on an application under subsection (2)(a) above that the circumstances which led to the making of the order or entry have ceased to exist and are unlikely to recur, he may–</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-52-3-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">revoke the order or cancel the entry; and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-52-3-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">terminate any licence granted to a person in pursuance of the order or entry subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks necessary for the protection of the legitimate interests of that person.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-52-4"><span class="LegAddition">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS L


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terests of that person.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-52-4"><span class="LegAddition">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Where an appeal is brought–</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-52-4-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">from an order made by the comptroller in pursuance of an application under sections 48 to 51 above;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-52-4-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">from a decision of his to make an entry in the register in pursuance of such an application;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-52-4-c"><span class="LegAddition">(c)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">from a revocation or cancellation made by him under subsection (3) above; or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-52-4-d"><span class="LegAddition">(d)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">from a refusal of his to make such an order, entry, revocation or cancellat


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d="section-52-4-d"><span class="LegAddition">(d)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">from a refusal of his to make such an order, entry, revocation or cancellation,</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">the Attorney General, the appropriate Law Officer within the meaning of section 4A of the Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857 </span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020521" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020521">F124</a><span class="LegAddition"> or the Attorney General for Northern Ireland, or </span><span class="LegAddition"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-28d8eec5f9c8eb6c44ec393875aa6706" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-28d8eec5f9c8eb6c44ec393875aa6706">F125</a><span class="LegSubstitution">such other person who has a right of audience</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span><span class="LegAddition"> as any of them may appoint, shall be entitled to appear and be heard.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-52-5"><span class="LegAddition">(5)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Where an application under sections 48 to 51 above or subsection (2) above is opposed, and either–</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="L


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><span class="LegAddition">Where an application under sections 48 to 51 above or subsection (2) above is opposed, and either–</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-52-5-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the parties consent, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-52-5-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the proceedings require a prolonged examination of documents or any scientific or local investigation which cannot in the opinion of the comptroller conveniently be made before him,</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">the comptroller may at any time order the whole proceedings, or any question or issue of fact arising in them, to be referred to an arbitrator or arbiter agreed on by the parties or, in default of agreement, appointed by the comptroller.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-52-6"><span class="LegAddition">(6)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Where the whole proceedings are so referred, unless the parties otherwise agree before the award of the arbitrator or arbiter is made, an appeal shall lie from the award to the court.</span></span>&#x


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Where the whole proceedings are so referred, unless the parties otherwise agree before the award of the arbitrator or arbiter is made, an appeal shall lie from the award to the court.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-52-7"><span class="LegAddition">(7)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Where a question or issue of fact is so referred, the arbitrator or arbiter shall report his findings to the comptroller.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020511"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020511" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F123</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 52 substituted (29.7.1999) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/1999/1899">S.I. 1999/1899</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1999/1899/regulation/6" title="Go to S.I. 1999/1899 reg. 6" rel="cite"><strong>reg. 6</strong></a> (with transitional provisions in <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1999/1899/regulation/8/4" title="Go to S.I. 1999/1899 reg. 8(4)" rel="cite">reg. 8(4)</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020521"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryTyp


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8/4" title="Go to S.I. 1999/1899 reg. 8(4)" rel="cite">reg. 8(4)</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020521"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020521" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F124</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText"><a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1857/44">1857 c. 44</a>.</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-28d8eec5f9c8eb6c44ec393875aa6706"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-28d8eec5f9c8eb6c44ec393875aa6706" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F125</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 52(4) substituted (1.10.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property Act 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18">Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/24/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 s. 24(1)" rel="cite">s. 24(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/schedule/paragraph/4/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 Sch. para. 4(1)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. para. 4(1)</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330">S.I. 2014/2330</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/233


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"The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330">S.I. 2014/2330</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/schedule" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 Sch." rel="cite">Sch.</a></span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-53"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">53</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Compulsory licences; supplementary provisions.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-53-1"><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-13ffa33da8c0ae4ab35c28f50fa33ce6" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-13ffa33da8c0ae4ab35c28f50fa33ce6">F126</a>(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-53-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In any proceedings on an <span c


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 . . . . . . .</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-53-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In any proceedings on an <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020561" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020561">F127</a><span class="LegAddition">application made under section 48 above in respect of a patent</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span>, any statement with respect to any activity in relation to the patented invention, or with respect to the grant or refusal of licences under the patent, contained in a report of the <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-787e672e0fdb628492fa2eba5d02ec79" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-787e672e0fdb628492fa2eba5d02ec79">F128</a><span class="LegSubstitution">Competition and Markets Authority</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> laid before Parliament under Part VII of the <a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020581" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020581">M4</a>Fair Trading Act 1973 <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020591" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020591">F129</a><span class="LegAddition">or section 17 of the Competition Act 1980</span><span class="L


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ink" href="#commentary-c8020591" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020591">F129</a><span class="LegAddition">or section 17 of the Competition Act 1980</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-f7051f204c81f2983a712b81f51c8399" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-f7051f204c81f2983a712b81f51c8399">F130</a><span class="LegAddition"> or published under Part 3 or 4 of the Enterprise Act 2002</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> shall be prima facie evidence of the matters stated, and in Scotland shall be sufficient evidence of those matters.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-53-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">The comptroller may make an entry in the register under sections 48 to 51 above notwithstanding any contract which would have precluded the entry on the application of the proprietor of the patent under section 46 above.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-53-4">(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">An entry made in the register under sections 48 to 51 above shall for all purposes have the same effect as an entry made under section 46 above.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-53-5">(5)</span><s


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ll for all purposes have the same effect as an entry made under section 46 above.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-53-5">(5)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">No order or entry shall be made in pursuance of an application under sections 48 to 51 above which would be at variance with any treaty or international convention to which the United Kingdom is a party.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-13ffa33da8c0ae4ab35c28f50fa33ce6"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-13ffa33da8c0ae4ab35c28f50fa33ce6" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F126</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 53(1) repealed (1.1.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 s. 17(1)" rel="cite">s. 17(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/2/paragraph/12" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 Sch. 2 para. 12" rel="cite">Sch. 2 para. 12</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/3" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 Sch. 3" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 3</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc.


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d/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/3" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 Sch. 3" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 3</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205">S.I. 2004/3205</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205/article/2/g/k" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 art. 2(g)(k)" rel="cite">art. 2(g)(k)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205/article/9" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 art. 9" rel="cite">art. 9</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020561"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020561" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F127</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words substituted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/15/a" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 15(a)" rel="cite"><strong>


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88 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/15/a" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 15(a)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 5 para. 15(a)</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-787e672e0fdb628492fa2eba5d02ec79"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-787e672e0fdb628492fa2eba5d02ec79" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F128</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 53(2) substituted (1.4.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/892">The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/892)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/892/article/1/1" title="Go to The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 art. 1(1)" rel="cite">art. 1(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/892/schedule/1/paragraph/34" title="Go to The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 Sch. 1 para. 34" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 1 para. 34</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/892/article/3" 


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tition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 Sch. 1 para. 34" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 1 para. 34</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/892/article/3" title="Go to The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020591"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020591" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F129</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words inserted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/15/b" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 15(b)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 5 para. 15(b)</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-f7051f204c81f2983a712b81f51c8399"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-f7051f204c81f2983a712b81f51c8399" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F130</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 53(2) in


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="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-f7051f204c81f2983a712b81f51c8399" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F130</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 53(2) inserted (20.6.2003) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Enterprise Act 2002" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2002/40">Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2002/40/section/279" title="Go to Enterprise Act 2002 s. 279" rel="cite">s. 279</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2002/40/schedule/25/paragraph/8/4" title="Go to Enterprise Act 2002 Sch. 25 para. 8(4)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 25 para. 8(4)</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Enterprise Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings)Order 2003" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2003/1397">S.I. 2003/1397</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2003/1397/article/2/1" title="Go to The Enterprise Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings)Order 2003 art. 2(1)" rel="cite">art. 2(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2003/1397/schedule" title="Go to The Enterprise Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings)Order 2003 Sch." rel="cite">Sch.</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2003/1397/article/8" title="Go to The Enterprise Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings)Order 2003 arts. 8" rel="cite">arts. 8</a> <a class="LegCitation


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/uksi/2003/1397/article/8" title="Go to The Enterprise Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings)Order 2003 arts. 8" rel="cite">arts. 8</a> <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2003/1397/article/12" title="Go to The Enterprise Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings)Order 2003 12" rel="cite">12</a>)</span></p></div><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Modifications etc. (not altering text)</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-M_C_0ac61d74-f506-4e41-9b23-99d70f99a3ed"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType">C13</span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 53(2) modified (20.6.2003) by <a class="LegCitation" title="The Enterprise Act 2002 (Protection of Legitimate Interests) Order 2003" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2003/1592">The Enterprise Act 2002 (Protection of Legitimate Interests) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1592)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2003/1592/article/1/1" title="Go to The Enterprise Act 2002 (Protection of Legitimate Interests) Order 2003 art. 1(1)" rel="cite">art. 1(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2003/1592/schedule/4/paragraph/3/2" title="Go to The Enterprise Act 2002 (Protection of Legitimate Interests) Order 2003 Sch. 4 para. 3(2)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 4 para. 3(2)</strong></a> (as amended (1.4.2014) by S.I. 2014/891, arts. 1, 19(2) (with arts. 20-23))</span></p></div><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Marginal Citations</p><


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="cite"><strong>Sch. 4 para. 3(2)</strong></a> (as amended (1.4.2014) by S.I. 2014/891, arts. 1, 19(2) (with arts. 20-23))</span></p></div><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Marginal Citations</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020581"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020581" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">M4</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText"><a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1973/41">1973 c. 41</a>. </span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-54"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">54</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Special provisions where patented invention is being worked abroad.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-54-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide that the comptroller may not (otherwise than for purposes of the public interest) make an order or entry in respect of a patent in pursuance of an application under sections 48 to 51 above if the invention concerned is being commercially worked in any relevant country specified in the Order and demand in the United Kingdom for any patented product resulting from 


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sections 48 to 51 above if the invention concerned is being commercially worked in any relevant country specified in the Order and demand in the United Kingdom for any patented product resulting from that working is being met by importation from that country.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-54-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In subsection (1) above “<span class="LegTerm" id="term-relevant-country">relevant country</span>” means a country other than a member state <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020601" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020601">F131</a><span class="LegAddition">or a member of the World Trade Organisation</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> whose law in the opinion of Her Majesty in Council incorporates or will incorporate provisions treating the working of an invention in, and importation from, the United Kingdom in a similar way to that in which the Order in Council would (if made) treat the working of an invention in, and and importation from, that country.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020601"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020601" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F131</a></span><span 


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aryItem" id="commentary-c8020601"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020601" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F131</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 54(2) inserted (29.7.1999) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/1999/1899">S.I. 1999/1899</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1999/1899/regulation/7/4" title="Go to S.I. 1999/1899 reg. 7(4)" rel="cite"><strong>reg. 7(4)</strong></a></span></p></div></div><div class="LegClearPblock"></div><h3 class="LegPblock"><span class="LegPblockTitle"> Use of patented inventions for services of the Crown<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h3><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-55"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1ContainerFirst"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">55</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitleFirst"> Use of patented inventions for services of the Crown.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Notwithstanding anything in this Act, any government department and any person authorised in writing by a government department may, for the services 


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1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Notwithstanding anything in this Act, any government department and any person authorised in writing by a government department may, for the services of the Crown and in accordance with this section, do any of the following acts in the United Kingdom in relation to a patented invention without the consent of the proprietor of the patent, that is to say—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-1-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">where the invention is a product, may—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-55-1-a-i">(i)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text">make, use, import or keep the product, or sell or offer to sell it where to do so would be incidental or ancillary to making, using, importing or keeping it; or</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-55-1-a-ii">(ii)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text">in any event, sell or offer to sell it for foreign defence purposes or for the production or supply of specified drugs and medicines, or dispose or offer to dispose of it (otherwise than by selling it) for any purpose whatever;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-1-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">where the invention is a process, may us


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ver;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-1-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">where the invention is a process, may use it or do in relation to any product obtained directly by means of the process anything mentioned in paragraph (a) above;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-1-c">(c)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">without prejudice to the foregoing, where the invention or any product obtained directly by means of the invention is a specified drug or medicine, may sell or offer to sell the drug or medicine;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-1-d">(d)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">may supply or offer to supply to any person any of the means, relating to an essential element of the invention, for putting the invention into effect;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-1-e">(e)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">may dispose or offer to dispose of anything which was made, used, imported or kept in the exercise of the powers conferred by this section and which is no longer required for the purpose for which it was made, used, imported or kept (as the case may be),</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text">and anything done by virtue of this subsection shall not amount to


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quired for the purpose for which it was made, used, imported or kept (as the case may be),</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text">and anything done by virtue of this subsection shall not amount to an infringement of the patent concerned.&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Any act done in relation to an invention by virtue of this section is in the following provisions of this section referred to as use of the invention; and “<span class="LegTerm" id="term-use">use</span>”, in relation to an invention, in sections 56 to 58 below shall be construed accordingly.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">So far as the invention has before its priority date been duly recorded by or tried by or on behalf of a government department or the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority otherwise than in consequence of a relevant communication made in confidence, any use of the invention by virtue of this section may be made free of any royalty or other payment to the proprietor.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-4">(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">So far as the invention has not been so recorded or tried, any use of it made by virtue of this section at any time either—</span>&#xD;</p><p c


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ion-55-4">(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">So far as the invention has not been so recorded or tried, any use of it made by virtue of this section at any time either—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-4-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">after the publication of the application for the patent for the invention; or</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-4-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">without prejudice to paragraph (a) above, in consequence of a relevant communication made after the priority date of the invention otherwise than in confidence;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text">shall be made on such terms as may be agreed either before or after the use by the government department and the proprietor of the patent with the approval of the Treasury or as may in default of agreement be determined by the court on a reference under section 58 below.&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-5">(5)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where an invention is used by virtue of this section at any time after publication of an application for a patent for the invention but before such a patent is granted, and the terms for its use agreed or determined as mentioned in subsection (4) above include terms as to payment for the use, then (notwithst


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tent for the invention but before such a patent is granted, and the terms for its use agreed or determined as mentioned in subsection (4) above include terms as to payment for the use, then (notwithstanding anything in those terms) any such payment shall be recoverable only—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-5-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">after such a patent is granted; and</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-55-5-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">if (apart from this section) the use would, if the patent had been granted on the date of the publication of the application, have infringed not only the patent but also the claims (as interpreted by the description and any drawings referred to in the description or claims) in the form in which they were contained in the application immediately before the preparations for its publication were completed by the Patent Office.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-6">(6)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">The authority of a government department in respect of an invention may be given under this section either before or after the patent is granted and either before or after the use in respect of which the authority is given is made, and may be given to any person whether or not he is authorised di


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on either before or after the patent is granted and either before or after the use in respect of which the authority is given is made, and may be given to any person whether or not he is authorised directly or indirectly by the proprietor of the patent to do anything in relation to the invention.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-7">(7)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where any use of an invention is made by or with the authority of a government department under this section, then, unless it appears to the department that it would be contrary to the public interest to do so, the department shall notify the proprietor of the patent as soon as practicable after the second of the following events, that is to say, the use is begun and the patent is granted, and furnish him with such information as to the extent of the use as he may from time to time require.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-8">(8)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">A person acquiring anything disposed of in the exercise of powers conferred by this section, and any person claiming through him, may deal with it in the same manner as if the patent were held on behalf of the Crown.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-9">(9)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In this section “<span class="


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lf of the Crown.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-9">(9)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In this section “<span class="LegTerm" id="term-relevant-communication">relevant communication</span>”, in relation to an invention, means a communication of the invention directly or indirectly by the proprietor of the patent or any person from whom he derives title.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-10">(10)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subsection (4) above is without prejudice to any rule of law relating to the confidentiality of information.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-55-11">(11)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In the application of this section to Northern Ireland, the reference in subsection (4) above to the Treasury shall, where the government department referred to in that subsection is a department of the Government of Northern Ireland, be construed as a reference to the Department of Finance for Northern Ireland.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Modifications etc. (not altering text)</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020611"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType">C14</span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 55(4) modified by <a class="LegCitation" ti


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ance with arrangements made under </span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-7df5c1c7019dde75bc77b6cca96b2ffc" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-7df5c1c7019dde75bc77b6cca96b2ffc">F139</a><span class="LegAddition">... section 17C of the 1978 Act </span><span class="LegAddition"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-173418c762ee404594c9c1a91bc855c8" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-173418c762ee404594c9c1a91bc855c8">F140</a><span class="LegAddition">(in the case of personal dental services)</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span><span class="LegAddition"> , or the corresponding provisions of the law in force in Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020731" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020731">F141</a><span class="LegAddition">, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-56-4-a-iii"><span class="LegAddition">(iii)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text"><span class="LegAddition">local pharmaceutical services provided under a pilot scheme established under </span><span class="LegAddition"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-c1fcf162b11ecb3a


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S LegP2Text">and,&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-56-4-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">specified for the purposes of this subsection in regulations made by the Secretary of State.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020691"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020691" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F132</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 56(4)(a) substituted for s. 56(4)(a)(i)(ii) and words immediately preceding them (1.4.1998) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1997/46">1997 c. 46</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1997/46/section/41/10" title="Go to 1997 c. 46 s. 41(10)" rel="cite">s. 41(10)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1997/46/schedule/2/part/I/paragraph/2" title="Go to 1997 c. 46 Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/1998/631">S.I. 1998/631</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1998/631/article/2/1/b" title="Go to S.I. 1998/631 art. 2(1)(b)" rel="cite">art. 2(1)(b)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1998/631/schedule/2" title="Go to S.I. 1998/631 Sch. 2" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2</strong><


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 title="Go to S.I. 1998/631 art. 2(1)(b)" rel="cite">art. 2(1)(b)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1998/631/schedule/2" title="Go to S.I. 1998/631 Sch. 2" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2</strong></a> (subject to <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1998/631/article/3" title="Go to S.I. 1998/631 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1998/631/article/4" title="Go to S.I. 1998/631 4" rel="cite">4</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1998/631/article/5" title="Go to S.I. 1998/631 5" rel="cite">5</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-M_F_aae29e79-1bf6-4119-af2b-a8f141f5d658"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-M_F_aae29e79-1bf6-4119-af2b-a8f141f5d658" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F133</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 56(4)(a)(ai) inserted (1.4.2004) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43">Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/section/199/1/4" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 s. 199(1)(4)" rel="cite">s. 199(1)(4)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/schedule/11/paragraph/6/2" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Sch. 11 para. 6(2)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch


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</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/schedule/11/paragraph/6/2" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Sch. 11 para. 6(2)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 11 para. 6(2)</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/288">S.I. 2004/288</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/288/article/5/2/d" title="Go to S.I. 2004/288 art. 5(2)(d)" rel="cite"><strong>art. 5(2)(d)</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/288/article/7" title="Go to S.I. 2004/288 art. 7" rel="cite">art. 7</a>) (as amended by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/866">S.I. 2004/866</a> and <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2005/2925">S.I. 2005/2925</a>); <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/480">S.I. 2004/480</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/480/article/4/2/d" title="Go to S.I. 2004/480 art. 4(2)(d)" rel="cite"><strong>art. 4(2)(d)</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/480/article/6" title="Go to S.I. 2004/480 art. 6" rel="cite">art. 6</a>) (as amended by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/1019">S.I. 2004/1019</a> and <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2006/345">S.I. 2006/345</a>))</span></p></div>


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gislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/1019">S.I. 2004/1019</a> and <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2006/345">S.I. 2006/345</a>))</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-M_F_25ae3257-c9a3-4b8a-d8c0-d3b39f330084"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-M_F_25ae3257-c9a3-4b8a-d8c0-d3b39f330084" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F134</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 56(4)(a)(ai) inserted (1.4.2004) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/957">Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/957)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/957/article/1" title="Go to Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 art. 1" rel="cite">art. 1</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/957/schedule/paragraph/2/a" title="Go to Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 Sch. para. 2(a)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. para. 2(a)</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-fc84deb5162e425672b435cee9c7ffa9"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-fc84deb5162e425672b435cee9c7ffa9" title="Go back to reference for this c


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a5c" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F136</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 56(4)(a)(i) substituted (1.3.2007) by virtue of <a class="LegCitation" title="National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2006/43">National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2006/43/section/8/2" title="Go to National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 s. 8(2)" rel="cite">s. 8(2)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2006/43/schedule/1/paragraph/58/b" title="Go to National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 Sch. 1 para. 58(b)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 1 para. 58(b)</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2006/43/schedule/3/part/1" title="Go to National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 Sch. 3 Pt. 1" rel="cite">Sch. 3 Pt. 1</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-f3dd48b69328a60ef96eb5dc0f970abf"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-f3dd48b69328a60ef96eb5dc0f970abf" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F137</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 56(4)(a)(i) inserted (1.4.2004) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43">Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 200


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) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43">Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/section/199/1" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 s. 199(1)" rel="cite">s. 199(1)</a><a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/section/199/4" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (4)" rel="cite">(4)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/schedule/11/paragraph/6/3" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Sch. 11 para. 6(3)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 11 para. 6(3)</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No.2) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/288">S.I. 2004/288</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/288/article/5/2/d" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No.2) Order 2004 art. 5(2)(d)" rel="cite">art. 5(2)(d)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/288/article/7" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No.2) Order 2004 art. 7" rel="cite">art. 7</a>) (as amended by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/866">S.I. 2004/866<


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dards) Act 2003 (Commencement No.2) Order 2004 art. 7" rel="cite">art. 7</a>) (as amended by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/866">S.I. 2004/866</a> and <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2005/2925">S.I. 2005/2925</a>); <a class="LegCitation" title="The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/480">S.I. 2004/480</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/480/article/4/2/d" title="Go to The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004 art. 4(2)(d)" rel="cite">art. 4(2)(d)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/480/article/6" title="Go to The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004 art. 6" rel="cite">art. 6</a>) (as amended by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/1019">S.I. 2004/1019</a> and <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2006/345">S.I. 2006/345</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-b57feebb64e90bf4672af8e70dfed7f9"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-b57feebb64e90bf4672af8e70dfed7f9" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F138</a></span><span c


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repealed (1.4.2004) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43">Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/section/199/1" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 s. 199(1)" rel="cite">s. 199(1)</a><a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/section/199/4" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (4)" rel="cite">(4)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/schedule/11/paragraph/6/4" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Sch. 11 para. 6(4)" rel="cite">Sch. 11 para. 6(4)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2003/43/schedule/14/part/4" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 Sch. 14 Pt. 4" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 14 Pt. 4</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No.2) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/288">S.I. 2004/288</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/288/article/5/2/d" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No.2) Order 2004 arts. 5(2)(d)" rel="cite">arts. 5(2)(d)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/288/article/6/2/c" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health


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Act 2003 (Commencement No.2) Order 2004 arts. 5(2)(d)" rel="cite">arts. 5(2)(d)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/288/article/6/2/c" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No.2) Order 2004 6(2)(c)" rel="cite">6(2)(c)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/288/article/7" title="Go to Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No.2) Order 2004 art. 7" rel="cite">art. 7</a>) (as amended by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/866">S.I. 2004/866</a> and <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2005/2925">S.I. 2005/2925</a>); <a class="LegCitation" title="The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/480">S.I. 2004/480</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/480/article/4/2/d" title="Go to The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004 arts. 4(2)(d)" rel="cite">arts. 4(2)(d)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/480/article/5/2/c" title="Go to The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004 5(2)(c)" rel="cite">5(2)(c)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/480/article/6" title="Go to The Health and Social Care (Community Health a


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2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004 5(2)(c)" rel="cite">5(2)(c)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/480/article/6" title="Go to The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2004 art. 6" rel="cite">art. 6</a>) (as amended by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/1019">S.I. 2004/1019</a> and <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2006/345">S.I. 2006/345</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-173418c762ee404594c9c1a91bc855c8"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-173418c762ee404594c9c1a91bc855c8" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F140</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 56(4)(a)(ii) inserted (1.4.2004) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/957">Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/957)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/957/article/1" title="Go to Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 art. 1" rel="cite">art. 1</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/957/schedule/paragraph/2/c" title="Go to Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Mo


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ifications) Order 2004 art. 1" rel="cite">art. 1</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/957/schedule/paragraph/2/c" title="Go to Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 Sch. para. 2(c)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. para. 2(c)</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020731"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020731" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F141</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 56(4)(a)(iii) and preceding word inserted (1.7.2002 for W. and 1.1.2003 for E.) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2001/15">2001 c. 15</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2001/15/section/67" title="Go to 2001 c. 15 ss. 67" rel="cite">ss. 67</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2001/15/section/70" title="Go to 2001 c. 15 70" rel="cite">70</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2001/15/schedule/5/paragraph/4" title="Go to 2001 c. 15 Sch. 5 para. 4" rel="cite">Sch. 5 para. 4</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2002/1475">S.I. 2002/1475</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2002/1475/article/2/1" title="Go to S.I. 2002/1475 art. 2(1)" rel="cite"><strong>art. 2(1)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2002/1475/schedule/part/1" title="Go to S.I. 2002/1475 Sch. Pt. 1" rel="cite">Sch. Pt. 1</a>; S


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nsequential Provisions) Act 2006 Sch. 3 Pt. 1" rel="cite">Sch. 3 Pt. 1</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-d21d6011feffda05921b42a648fc9427"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-d21d6011feffda05921b42a648fc9427" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F143</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 56(4)(a)(iii) substituted (1.3.2007) by virtue of <a class="LegCitation" title="National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2006/43">National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2006/43/section/8/2" title="Go to National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 s. 8(2)" rel="cite">s. 8(2)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2006/43/schedule/1/paragraph/58/c/ii" title="Go to National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 Sch. 1 para. 58(c)(ii)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 1 para. 58(c)(ii)</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2006/43/schedule/3/part/1" title="Go to National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 Sch. 3 Pt. 1" rel="cite">Sch. 3 Pt. 1</a>)</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-57"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">57</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Rights of third parties in respect of Crown use.<span class="LegExtentRestriction


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"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">57</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Rights of third parties in respect of Crown use.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In relation to—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57-1-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">any use made for the services of the Crown of an invention by a government department, or a person authorised by a government department, by virtue of section 55 above, or</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57-1-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">anything done for the services of the Crown to the order of a government department by the proprietor of a patent in respect of a patented invention or by the proprietor of an application in respect of an invention for which an application for a patent has been filed and is still pending,</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text">the provisions of any licence, assignment, assignation or agreement to which this subsection applies shall be of no effect so far as those provisions restrict or regulate the working of the invention, or the use


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ons of any licence, assignment, assignation or agreement to which this subsection applies shall be of no effect so far as those provisions restrict or regulate the working of the invention, or the use of any model, document or information relating to it, or provide for the making of payments in respect of, or calculated by reference to, such working or use; and the reproduction or publication of any model or document in connection with the said working or use shall not be deemed to be an infringement of any copyright <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020751" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020751">F144</a><span class="LegAddition">or design right</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> subsisting in the model or document.&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subsection (1) above applies to a licence, assignment, assignation or agreement which is made, whether before or after the appointed day, between (on the one hand) any person who is a proprietor of or an applicant for the patent, or anyone who derives title from any such person or from whom such person derives title, and (on the other hand) any person whatever other than a government department.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-3">(3)</span><span class=


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the other hand) any person whatever other than a government department.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where an exclusive licence granted otherwise than for royalties or other benefits determined by reference to the working of the invention is in force under the patent or application concerned, then—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57-3-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in relation to anything done in respect of the invention which, but for the provisions of this section and section 55 above, would constitute an infringement of the rights of the licensee, subsection (4) of that section shall have effect as if for the reference to the proprietor of the patent there were substituted a reference to the licensee; and</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57-3-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in relation to anything done in respect of the invention by the licensee by virtue of an authority given under that section, that section shall have effect as if the said subsection (4) were omitted.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-4">(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to the provisions of subsection (3) above, where the pa


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p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-4">(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to the provisions of subsection (3) above, where the patent, or the right to the grant of the patent, has been assigned to the proprietor of the patent or application in consideration of royalties or other benefits determined by reference to the working of the invention, then—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57-4-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in relation to any use of the invention by virtue of section 55 above, subsection (4) of that section shall have effect as if the reference to the proprietor of the patent included a reference to the assignor, and any sum payable by virtue of that subsection shall be divided between the proprietor of the patent or application and the assignor in such proportion as may be agreed on by them or as may in default of agreement be determined by the court on a reference under section 58 below; and</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57-4-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in relation to any act done in respect of the invention for the services of the Crown by the proprietor of the patent or application to the order of a government department, section 55(4) above shall have effect as if that act were use made by virtue of an authority give


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s of the Crown by the proprietor of the patent or application to the order of a government department, section 55(4) above shall have effect as if that act were use made by virtue of an authority given under that section.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-5">(5)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where section 55(4) above applies to any use of an invention and a person holds an exclusive licence under the patent or application concerned (other than such a licence as is mentioned in subsection (3) above) authorising him to work the invention, then subsections (7) and (8) below shall apply.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-6">(6)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In those subsections “the section 55(4)” payment means such payment (if any) as the proprietor of the patent or application and the department agree under section 55 above, or the court determines under section 58 below, should be made by the department to the proprietor in respect of the use of the invention.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-7">(7)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">The licensee shall be entitled to recover from the proprietor of the patent or application such part (if any) of the section 55(4) payment as may be agreed on by them or as may in default of agreement be deter


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see shall be entitled to recover from the proprietor of the patent or application such part (if any) of the section 55(4) payment as may be agreed on by them or as may in default of agreement be determined by the court under section 58 below to be just having regard to any expenditure incurred by the licensee—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57-7-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in developing the invention, or</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57-7-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in making payments to the proprietor in consideration of the licence, other than royalties or other payments determined by reference to the use of the invention.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-8">(8)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Any agreement by the proprietor of the patent or application and the department under section 55(4) above as to the amount of the section 55(4) payment shall be of no effect unless the licensee consents to the agreement; and any determination by the court under section 55(4) above as to the amount of that payment shall be of no effect unless the licensee has been informed of the reference to the court and is given an opportunity to be heard.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2N


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ffect unless the licensee has been informed of the reference to the court and is given an opportunity to be heard.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-9">(9)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where any models, documents or information relating to an invention are used in connection with any use of the invention which falls within subsection (1)(a) above, or with anything done in respect of the invention which falls within subsection (1)(b) above, subsection (4) of section 55 above shall (whether or not it applies to any such use of the invention) apply to the use of the models, documents or information as if for the reference in it to the proprietor of the patent there were substituted a reference to the person entitled to the benefit of any provision of an agreement which is rendered inoperative by this section in relation to that use; and in section 58 below the references to terms for the use of an invention shall be construed accordingly.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57-10">(10)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorising the disclosure to a government department or any other person of any model, document or information to the use of which this section applies in contravention of any such licence, assignment, assignation or agreement as is mentioned in this section.</span


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 person of any model, document or information to the use of which this section applies in contravention of any such licence, assignment, assignation or agreement as is mentioned in this section.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020751"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020751" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F144</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words inserted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/303/1" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 303(1)" rel="cite">s. 303(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/7/paragraph/20" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 7 para. 20" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 7 para. 20</strong></a></span></p></div><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Modifications etc. (not altering text)</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020741"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType">C15</span><span class="LegCommentaryText">By <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/1987/1497">S.I. 1987/1497</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1987/1497/regul


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pan class="LegCommentaryText">By <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/1987/1497">S.I. 1987/1497</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1987/1497/regulation/9/2/paragraph/2" title="Go to S.I. 1987/1497 reg. 9(2) para. 2" rel="cite"><strong>reg. 9(2) para. 2</strong></a> Table B it is provided that s. 57(1) shall apply as if there were inserted at the end thereof the words, “or of any topography right”</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-57A"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020761" title="View the commentary text for this item">F145</a><span class="LegAddition">57A</span></span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"><span class="LegAddition"> Compensation for loss of profit.</span><span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57A-1"><span class="LegAddition">(1)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Where use is made of an invention for the services of the Crown, the government department concerned shall pay—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57A-1-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span>


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 the government department concerned shall pay—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57A-1-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">to the proprietor of the patent, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-57A-1-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">if there is an exclusive licence in force in respect of the patent, to the exclusive licensee,compensation for any loss resulting from his not being awarded a contract to supply the patented product or, as the case may be, to perform the patented process or supply a thing made by means of the patented process.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57A-2"><span class="LegAddition">(2)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Compensation is payable only to the extent that such a contract could have been fulfilled from his existing manufacturing or other capacity; but is payable notwithstanding the existence of circumstances rendering him ineligible for the award of such a contract.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57A-3"><span class="LegAddition">(3)</span></span><span class="LegDS Le


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d of such a contract.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57A-3"><span class="LegAddition">(3)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">In determining the loss, regard shall be had to the profit which would have been made on such a contract and to the extent to which any manufacturing or other capacity was under-used.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57A-4"><span class="LegAddition">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">No compensation is payable in respect of any failure to secure contracts to supply the patented product or, as the case may be, to perform the patented process or supply a thing made by means of the patented process, otherwise than for the services of the Crown.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57A-5"><span class="LegAddition">(5)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">The amount payable shall, if not agreed between the proprietor or licensee and the government department concerned with the approval of the Treasury, be determined by the court on a reference under section 58, and is in addition to any amount payable under section 55 or 57.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" i


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court on a reference under section 58, and is in addition to any amount payable under section 55 or 57.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57A-6"><span class="LegAddition">(6)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">In this section “the government department concerned”, in relation to any use of an invention for the services of the Crown, means the government department by whom or on whose authority the use was made.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-57A-7"><span class="LegAddition">(7)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">In the application of this section to Northern Ireland, the reference in subsection (5) above to the Treasury shall, where the government department concerned is a department of the Government of Northern Ireland, be construed as a reference to the Department of Finance and Personnel.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020761"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020761" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F145</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 57A inserted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Design


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e"><a href="#reference-c8020761" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F145</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 57A inserted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/16/1/4" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 16(1)(4)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 5 para. 16(1)(4)</strong></a></span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-58"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">58</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> References of disputes as to Crown use.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-1"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020771" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020771">F146</a><span class="LegAddition">(1)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Any dispute as to—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span


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">F146</a><span class="LegAddition">(1)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Any dispute as to—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-1-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the exercise by a government department, or a person authorised by a government department, of the powers conferred by section 55 above,</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-1-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">terms for the use of an invention for the services of the Crown under that section,</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-1-c"><span class="LegAddition">(c)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the right of any person to receive any part of a payment made in pursuance of subsection (4) of that section, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-1-d"><span class="LegAddition">(d)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the right of any person to receive a payment under section 57A,</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">may be 


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s="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the right of any person to receive a payment under section 57A,</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">may be referred to the court by either party to the dispute after a patent has been granted for the invention.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">If in such proceedings any question arises whether an invention has been recorded or tried as mentioned in section 55 above, and the disclosure of any document recording the invention, or of any evidence of the trial thereof, would in the opinion of the department be prejudicial to the public interest, the disclosure may be made confidentially to <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-b2e48be2df8833e0b062e0c1a7fb29fc" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-b2e48be2df8833e0b062e0c1a7fb29fc">F147</a><span class="LegSubstitution">the other party's legal representative</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> or to an independent expert mutually agreed upon.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In determining under this section any dispute between a government department and any person as to t


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<span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In determining under this section any dispute between a government department and any person as to the terms for the use of an invention for the services of the Crown, the court shall have regard—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-3-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">to any benefit or compensation which that person or any person from whom he derives title may have received or may be entitled to receive directly or indirectly from any government department in respect of the invention in question;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-3-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">to whether that person or any person from whom he derives title has in the court’s opinion without reasonable cause failed to comply with a request of the department to use the invention for the services of the Crown on reasonable terms.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-4">(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In determining whether or not to grant any relief <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020781" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020781">F148</a><span class="LegAddition">under subsection


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ngeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020781" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020781">F148</a><span class="LegAddition">under subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) above</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> and the nature and extent of the relief granted the court shall, subject to the following provisions of this section, apply the principles applied by the court immediately before the appointed day to the granting of relief under section 48 of the 1949 Act.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-5">(5)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">On a reference under this section the court may refuse to grant relief by way of compensation in respect of the use of an invention for the services of the Crown during any further period specified under section 25(4) above, but before the payment of the renewal fee and any additional fee prescribed for the purposes of that section.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-6">(6)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where an amendment of the specification of a patent has been allowed under any of the provisions of this Act, <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-8ae70cc76c2923732b98fab5dd6d74f9" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-8ae70cc76c2923732b98fab5dd6


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angeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-8ae70cc76c2923732b98fab5dd6d74f9" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-8ae70cc76c2923732b98fab5dd6d74f9">F149</a><span class="LegAddition">or, in the case of a European patent (</span><span class="LegAddition">UK</span><span class="LegAddition">), has been allowed under any of the provisions in the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court,</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> the court shall not grant relief by way of compensation under this section in respect of any such use before the decision to allow the amendment unless the court is satisfied that</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-6-a"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-5af4c405eb7d6b599b4652a969ffee9d" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-5af4c405eb7d6b599b4652a969ffee9d">F150</a><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the specification of the patent as published was framed in good faith and with reasonable skill and knowledge <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-eb974bffe8901898fc9fbbdd784c6aac" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-eb974bffe8901898fc9fbbdd784c6aac">F151</a><span class="LegAddition">an


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aryLink" href="#commentary-key-eb974bffe8901898fc9fbbdd784c6aac" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-eb974bffe8901898fc9fbbdd784c6aac">F151</a><span class="LegAddition">and.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-6-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the relief is sought in good faith</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-7">(7)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">If the validity of a patent is put in issue in proceedings under this section and it is found that the patent is only partially valid, the court may, subject to subsection (8) below, grant relief to the proprietor of the patent in respect of that part of the patent which is found to be valid and to have been used for the services of the Crown.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-8">(8)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where in any such proceedings it is found that a patent is only partially valid, the court shall not grant relief by way of compensation, costs or expenses except where the proprietor of the patent proves that</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-8-a"><span class="LegChangeD


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ts or expenses except where the proprietor of the patent proves that</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-8-a"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-77950cc3f16865ba7aece5a151c3cfe1" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-77950cc3f16865ba7aece5a151c3cfe1">F152</a><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the specification of the patent was framed in good faith and with reasonable skill and knowledge, and</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-8-b"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-48217ba81e7a8f4471b0d32089f29282" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-48217ba81e7a8f4471b0d32089f29282">F153</a><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the relief is sought in good faith,</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">and</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> in that event the court may grant relief in respect of that part of the patent which is valid and has been so used, subject to the discretion of the court as to costs and expenses and as to the date from which compensation should be awarded.&#xD;</p><p cla


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hat part of the patent which is valid and has been so used, subject to the discretion of the court as to costs and expenses and as to the date from which compensation should be awarded.&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-9">(9)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">As a condition of any such relief the court may direct that the specification of the patent shall be amended to its satisfaction upon an application made for that purpose under section 75 below, and an application may be so made accordingly, whether or not all other issues in the proceedings have been determined.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-9A"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-97bc8c2d5411189eb65091b22c11be20" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-97bc8c2d5411189eb65091b22c11be20">F154</a><span class="LegAddition">(9A)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">The court may also grant such relief in the case of a European patent (</span><span class="LegAddition">UK</span><span class="LegAddition">) on condition that the claims of the patent are limited to its satisfaction by the European Patent Office at the request of the proprietor.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS


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isfaction by the European Patent Office at the request of the proprietor.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-10">(10)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In considering the amount of any compensation for the use of an invention for the services of the Crown after publication of an application for a patent for the invention and before such a patent is granted, the court shall consider whether or not it would have been reasonable to expect, from a consideration of the application as published under section 16 above, that a patent would be granted conferring on the proprietor of the patent protection for an act of the same description as that found to constitute that use, and if the court finds that it would not have been reasonable, it shall reduce the compensation to such amount as it thinks just.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-11">(11)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where by virtue of a transaction, instrument or event to which section 33 above applies a person becomes the proprietor or one of the proprietors or an exclusive licensee of a patent (the new proprietor or licensee) and a government department or a person authorised by a government department subsequently makes use under section 55 above of the patented invention, the new proprietor or licensee shall not be ent


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) and a government department or a person authorised by a government department subsequently makes use under section 55 above of the patented invention, the new proprietor or licensee shall not be entitled to any compensation under section 55(4) above (as it stands or as modified by section 57(3) above) <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020791" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020791">F155</a><span class="LegAddition">, or to any compensation under section 57A above,</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> in respect of a subsequent use of the invention before the transaction, instrument or event is registered unless—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-11-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the transaction, instrument or event is registered within the period of six months beginning with its date; or</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-58-11-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the court is satisfied that it was not practicable to register the transaction, instrument or event before the end of that period and that it was registered as soon as practicable thereafter.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-12">(12)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In any pro


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as soon as practicable thereafter.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-12">(12)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In any proceedings under this section the court may at any time order the whole proceedings or any question or issue of fact arising in them to be referred, on such terms as the court may direct, to a Circuit judge discharging the functions of an official referee or an arbitrator in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, or to an arbiter in Scotland; and references to the court in the foregoing provisions of this section shall be construed accordingly.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-58-13">(13)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">One of two or more joint proprietors of a patent or application for a patent may without the concurrence of the others refer a dispute to the court under this section, but shall not do so unless the others are made parties to the proceedings; but any of the others made a defendant or defender shall not be liable for any costs or expenses unless he enters an appearance and takes part in the proceedings.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020771"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020771" title="Go back to reference for this comme


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ndments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020771"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020771" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F146</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 58(1) substituted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/16/2/4" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 16(2)(4)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 5 para. 16(2)(4)</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-b2e48be2df8833e0b062e0c1a7fb29fc"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-b2e48be2df8833e0b062e0c1a7fb29fc" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F147</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 58(2) substituted (1.10.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property Act 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18">Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/24/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 s. 24(1)" rel="cite">s. 24(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/sche


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18)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/24/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 s. 24(1)" rel="cite">s. 24(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/schedule/paragraph/4/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 Sch. para. 4(2)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. para. 4(2)</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330">S.I. 2014/2330</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/schedule" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 Sch." rel="cite">Sch.</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020781"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020781" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F148</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words substituted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>,


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ight, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/16/2/4" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 16(2)(4)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 5 para. 16(2)(4)</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-8ae70cc76c2923732b98fab5dd6d74f9"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-8ae70cc76c2923732b98fab5dd6d74f9" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F149</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 58(6) inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)) by <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2016/388">The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/388)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2016/388/article/1/2" title="Go to The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 arts. 1(2)" rel="cite">arts. 1(2)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2016/388/article/2/2" title="Go to The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 2(2)" rel="cite"><strong>2(2)</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href=


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i/2016/388/article/2/2" title="Go to The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 2(2)" rel="cite"><strong>2(2)</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2016/388/article/3" title="Go to The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-5af4c405eb7d6b599b4652a969ffee9d"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-5af4c405eb7d6b599b4652a969ffee9d" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F150</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 58(6) renumbered as s. 58(6)(a) (13.12.2007) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/2/2/a" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 ss. 2(2)(a)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 2(2)(a)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 17(1)" rel="cite">17(1)</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396">S.I. 2007/3396</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396/article/2/c" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 art. 2(c)" rel="cite">art. 2(c)</a></span></p></div>


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s="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396/article/2/c" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 art. 2(c)" rel="cite">art. 2(c)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-eb974bffe8901898fc9fbbdd784c6aac"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-eb974bffe8901898fc9fbbdd784c6aac" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F151</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 58(6)(b) and word inserted (13.12.2007) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/2/2/a" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 ss. 2(2)(a)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 2(2)(a)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 17(1)" rel="cite">17(1)</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396">S.I. 2007/3396</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396/article/2/c" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 art. 2(c)" rel="cite">art. 2(c)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-77950cc3f16865ba7aece5a151c3cfe1"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-77950cc3f16865ba7aece


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</p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-77950cc3f16865ba7aece5a151c3cfe1"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-77950cc3f16865ba7aece5a151c3cfe1" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F152</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 58(8) renumbered as s. 58(8)(a) (13.12.2007) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/2/2/b" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 ss. 2(2)(b)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 2(2)(b)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 17(1)" rel="cite">17(1)</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396">S.I. 2007/3396</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396/article/2/c" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 art. 2(c)" rel="cite">art. 2(c)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-48217ba81e7a8f4471b0d32089f29282"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-48217ba81e7a8f4471b0d32089f29282" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F153</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 58(8)(b) and word inserted (13.12.2007) by <a class="LegCit


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tion" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/3/2" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 ss. 3(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 3(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 17(1)" rel="cite">17(1)</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396">S.I. 2007/3396</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396/article/2/e" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 art. 2(e)" rel="cite">art. 2(e)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020791"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020791" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F155</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words inserted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/16/3/4" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 16(3)(4)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 5 para. 16


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st calculated to serve the interests of the community; or</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-59-1-g">(g)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">for assisting the relief of suffering and the restoration and distribution of essential supplies and services in any country or territory outside the United Kingdom which is in grave distress as the result of war;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text">and any reference in this Act to the services of the Crown shall, as respects any period of emergency, include a reference to those purposes.&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-59-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In this section the use of an invention includes, in addition to any act constituting such use by virtue of section 55 above, any act which would, apart from that section and this section, amount to an infringement of the patent concerned or, as the case may be, give rise to a right under section 69 below to bring proceedings in respect of the application concerned, and any reference in this Act to “use for the services of the Crown” shall, as respects any period of emergency, be construed accordingly.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-59-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In this section “<span class="LegTerm" id="term-period-of-emergency">period of em


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/span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to the provisions of this section, a person infringes a patent for an invention if, but only if, while the patent is in force, he does any of the following things in the United Kingdom in relation to the invention without the consent of the proprietor of the patent, that is to say—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-1-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">where the invention is a product, he makes, disposes of, offers to dispose of, uses or imports the product or keeps it whether for disposal or otherwise;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-1-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">where the invention is a process, he uses the process or he offers it for use in the United Kingdom when he knows, or it is obvious to a reasonable person in the circumstances, that its use there without the consent of the proprietor would be an infringement of the patent;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-1-c">(c)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">where the invention is a process, he disposes of, offers to dispose of, uses or imports any product


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span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-1-c">(c)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">where the invention is a process, he disposes of, offers to dispose of, uses or imports any product obtained directly by means of that process or keeps any such product whether for disposal or otherwise.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person (other than the proprietor of the patent) also infringes a patent for an invention if, while the patent is in force and without the consent of the proprietor, he supplies or offers to supply in the United Kingdom a person other than a licensee or other person entitled to work the invention with any of the means, relating to an essential element of the invention, for putting the invention into effect when he knows, or it is obvious to a reasonable person in the circumstances, that those means are suitable for putting, and are intended to put, the invention into effect in the United Kingdom.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subsection (2) above shall not apply to the supply or offer of a staple commercial product unless the supply or the offer is made for the purpose of inducing the person supplied or, as the case may be, the person to whom the offer


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atent to oppose the act for the purpose of protecting the proprietor’s property, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-3A-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the opposition to the act interferes with the rights of any other person no more than is necessary to achieve that purpose.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-4"><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-983460d34980f282f0b9e80974710c3f" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-983460d34980f282f0b9e80974710c3f">F157</a>(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-5">(5)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">An act which, apart from this subsection, would constitute an infringement of a patent for an invention shall not do so if—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-5-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">it is done privately and for purposes which are not commercial;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-5-b">(b)</spa


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e has been a sale of plant propagating material to the farmer by the proprietor of the patent or with his consent for agricultural use;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-5-h"><span class="LegAddition">(h)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">it consists of the use of an animal or animal reproductive material by a farmer for an agricultural purpose following a sale to the farmer, by the proprietor of the patent or with his consent, of breeding stock or other animal reproductive material which constitutes or contains the patented invention.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-5-i"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-e3cb721c0abbe241b5556a656e439939" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-e3cb721c0abbe241b5556a656e439939">F159</a><span class="LegAddition">(i)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">it consists of—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-60-5-i-i"><span class="LegAddition">(i)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text"><span class="LegAddition">an act done in conducting a study, test or trial which is necessary for and is conducted with a view to th


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 for subsection (5)(g).</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-6B"><span class="LegAddition">(6B)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">For the purposes of subsection (5)(h), use for an agricultural purpose—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-6B-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">includes making an animal or animal reproductive material available for the purposes of pursuing the farmer’s agricultural activity; but</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-60-6B-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">does not include sale within the framework, or for the purposes, of a commercial reproduction activity.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-6C"><span class="LegAddition">(6C)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">In paragraphs (g) and (h) of subsection (5) “sale” includes any other form of commercialisation.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-6Bn1"><span class="LegChangeD


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l3"><span class="LegAddition">“</span><span class="LegTerm" id="term-exempted-aircraft"><span class="LegAddition">medicinal product for human use</span></span><span class="LegAddition">” has the meaning given by article 1 of Directive 2001/83/EC;</span>&#xD;</p></li><li><p class="LegListTextStandard LegLevel3"><span class="LegAddition">“</span><span class="LegTerm" id="term-exempted-aircraft"><span class="LegAddition">veterinary medicinal product</span></span><span class="LegAddition">” has the meaning given by article 1 of Directive 2001/82/EC.</span>&#xD;</p></li></ul><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-6Bn4"><span class="LegAddition">(6G)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Nothing in subsections (6D) to (6F) is to be read as affecting the application of subsection (5)(b) in relation to any act of a kind not falling within subsection (6D).</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-60-6H"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-df2a0c7ef3de5e9ec3790f01cbefa681" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-df2a0c7ef3de5e9ec3790f01cbefa681">F166</a><span class="LegAddition">(6H)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Subsection 5(k) applies to an act or use in relation to a 


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n">2004/24/</span><span class="LegAddition">EC</span></a><span class="LegAddition"> and </span><a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/european/directive/2004/0027"><span class="LegAddition">2004/27/</span><span class="LegAddition">EC</span></a><span class="LegAddition"> of the European Parliament and of the Council</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> &#xD;</p></li></ul><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-643298654d80faeae3c826ae313dc276"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-643298654d80faeae3c826ae313dc276" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F156</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText"><a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1977/37/section/60/3A" title="Go to S. 60(3A)" rel="cite">S. 60(3A)</a> inserted (31.12.2023 immediately before the end of 2023) by <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2023/1287">The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1287)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2023/1287/regulation/1/b" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 regs. 1(b)" rel="cite">regs. 1(b)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2023/1287/regulation/3" title="Go to Th


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onal Provisions) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205">S.I. 2004/3205</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205/article/2/g/k" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 art. 2(g)(k)" rel="cite">art. 2(g)(k)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205/article/9" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 art. 9" rel="cite">art. 9</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020871"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020871" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F158</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 60(5)(g)(h) inserted (28.7.2000) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2000/2037">S.I. 2000/2037</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2000/2037/regulation/4/a" title="Go to S.I. 2000/2037 reg. 4(a)" rel="cite"><strong>reg. 4(a)</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-e3cb721c0abbe241b5556a656e439939"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-e3cb721c0abbe241b5556a656e439939" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F159</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 60(5)(i) inserted (30.10.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Medicines (Marketing Authori


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174ffa9"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-aef831489d68faa7980dd3fca174ffa9" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F163</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 60(6)(b) inserted (1.1.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/2357">The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2357)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/2357/article/1/2" title="Go to The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 arts. 1(2)" rel="cite">arts. 1(2)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/2357/article/11/b" title="Go to The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 11(b)" rel="cite"><strong>11(b)</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/2357/article/20" title="Go to The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 arts. 20-23" rel="cite">arts. 20-23</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020891"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020891" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F164</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 60(6A)(6B)(6C) inserted (28.7.2000) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2000/2037">S.I. 2000/2037</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2000/2037/regulation/4/b" title="Go to S.I. 2000/2037 reg. 4(b)" rel="cite"><strong>reg. 4(b)</strong></a></spa


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he Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/388)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2016/388/article/1/2" title="Go to The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 arts. 1(2)" rel="cite">arts. 1(2)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2016/388/article/2/4" title="Go to The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 2(4)" rel="cite"><strong>2(4)</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2016/388/article/3" title="Go to The Patents (European Patent with Unitary Effect and Unified Patent Court) Order 2016 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020901"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020901" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F167</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 60(7) in the definition of “relevant ship” and “relevant aircraft, hovercraft or vehicle” inserted (29.7.1999) by virtue of <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/1999/1899">S.I. 1999/1899</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/1999/1899/regulation/7" title="Go to S.I. 1999/1899 reg. 7" rel="cite"><strong>reg. 7</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020911"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#refere


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horisations Etc.) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2759)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2005/2759/regulation/1/a" title="Go to Medicines (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Amendment Regulations 2005 regs. 1(a)" rel="cite">regs. 1(a)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2005/2759/regulation/3/b" title="Go to Medicines (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Amendment Regulations 2005 3(b)" rel="cite"><strong>3(b)</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-d7f9ff62b7c2551c175e32ca422b9253"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-d7f9ff62b7c2551c175e32ca422b9253" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F170</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 60(7) substituted (1.10.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property Act 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18">Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/24/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 s. 24(1)" rel="cite">s. 24(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/schedule/paragraph/5" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 Sch. para. 5" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. para. 5</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330">S.I. 2014/2330</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/


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lectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330">S.I. 2014/2330</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/schedule" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 Sch." rel="cite">Sch.</a></span></p></div><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Marginal Citations</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020921"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020921" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">M5</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText"><a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1949/67">1949 c. 67</a>. </span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-61"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">61</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Proceedings for infringement of patent.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-61-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to the following p


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ass="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-61-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, civil proceedings may be brought in the court by the proprietor of a patent in respect of any act alleged to infringe the patent and (without prejudice to any other jurisdiction of the court) in those proceedings a claim may be made—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-1-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">for an injunction or interdict restraining the defendant or defender from any apprehended act of infringement;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-1-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">for an order for him to deliver up or destroy any patented product in relation to which the patent is infringed or any article in which that product is inextricably comprised;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-1-c">(c)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">for damages in respect of the infringement;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-1-d">(d)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">for an account of the profits derived by him from the infringement;</span>&#xD;


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ix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-1-d">(d)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">for an account of the profits derived by him from the infringement;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-1-e">(e)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">for a declaration or declarator that the patent is valid and has been infringed by him.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-61-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">The court shall not, in respect of the same infringement, both award the proprietor of a patent damages and order that he shall be given an account of the profits.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-61-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">The proprietor of a patent and any other person may by agreement with each other refer to the comptroller the question whether that other person has infringed the patent and on the reference the proprietor of the patent may make any claim mentioned in subsection (1)(c) or (e) above.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-61-4">(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Except so far as the context requires, in the following provisions of this Act—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS Le


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n><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Except so far as the context requires, in the following provisions of this Act—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-4-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">any reference to proceedings for infringement and the bringing of such proceedings includes a reference to a reference under subsection (3) above and the making of such a reference;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-4-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">any reference to a <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-1dfabacc7db9f5bbfdf4e69d086d7d02" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-1dfabacc7db9f5bbfdf4e69d086d7d02">F171</a><span class="LegSubstitution">claimant</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> or pursuer includes a reference to the proprietor of the patent; and</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-4-c">(c)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">any reference to a defendant or defender includes a reference to any other party to the reference.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-61-5">(5)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">If it appears to the comptroller on a reference under subsection (3) above


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gClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-61-5">(5)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">If it appears to the comptroller on a reference under subsection (3) above that the question referred to him would more properly be determined by the court, he may decline to deal with it and the court shall have jurisdiction to determine the question as if the reference were proceedings brought in the court.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-61-6">(6)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, in determining whether or not to grant any kind of relief claimed under this section and the extent of the relief granted the court or the comptroller shall apply the principles applied by the court in relation to that kind of relief immediately before the appointed day.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-61-7"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-043c32afd972606bf95d46296adf830c" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-043c32afd972606bf95d46296adf830c">F172</a><span class="LegAddition">(7)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">If the comptroller awards any sum by way of damages on a reference under subsection (3) above, then—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class


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/span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">If the comptroller awards any sum by way of damages on a reference under subsection (3) above, then—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-7-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">in England and Wales, the sum shall be recoverable, if </span><span class="LegAddition"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-a150e770eb8e79ec1e9b7b0d60fea4f8" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-a150e770eb8e79ec1e9b7b0d60fea4f8">F173</a><span class="LegSubstitution">the county court</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span><span class="LegAddition"> so orders, </span><span class="LegAddition"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-f2c9dd369a8da1cd76a2d90ed70fd394" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-f2c9dd369a8da1cd76a2d90ed70fd394">F174</a><span class="LegSubstitution"> under section 85 of the County Courts Act 1984</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span><span class="LegAddition"> or otherwise as if it were payable under an order of that court;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-7-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><


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re payable under an order of that court;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-7-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">in Scotland, payment of the sum may be enforced in like manner as an extract registered decree arbitral bearing a warrant for execution issued by the sheriff court of any sheriffdom in Scotland;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-61-7-c"><span class="LegAddition">(c)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">in Northern Ireland, payment of the sum may be enforced as if it were a money judgment.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-1dfabacc7db9f5bbfdf4e69d086d7d02"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-1dfabacc7db9f5bbfdf4e69d086d7d02" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F171</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Word in s. 61(4)(b) substituted (1.1.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 s. 17(1)" rel="cite">s. 17(1


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ents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 s. 17(1)" rel="cite">s. 17(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/2/paragraph/14" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 Sch. 2 para. 14" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2 para. 14</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205">S.I. 2004/3205</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205/article/2/k" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 art. 2(k)" rel="cite">art. 2(k)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205/article/9" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 art. 9" rel="cite">art. 9</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-043c32afd972606bf95d46296adf830c"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-043c32afd972606bf95d46296adf830c" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F172</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 61(7) inserted (1.1.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpg


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gCommentaryText">S. 61(7) inserted (1.1.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/11" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 ss. 11" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 11</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 17(1)" rel="cite">17(1)</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205">S.I. 2004/3205</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205/article/2/d" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 art. 2(d)" rel="cite">art. 2(d)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/3205/article/9" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 art. 9" rel="cite">art. 9</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-a150e770eb8e79ec1e9b7b0d60fea4f8"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-a150e770eb8e79ec1e9b7b0d60fea4f8" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F173</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 61(7)(a) substituted (E.W.S.) (22.4.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Crime and Courts Act 2013" rel="cite" href="/id/ukp


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mmentary item">F173</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 61(7)(a) substituted (E.W.S.) (22.4.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Crime and Courts Act 2013" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2013/22">Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2013/22/section/61/3" title="Go to Crime and Courts Act 2013 s. 61(3)" rel="cite">s. 61(3)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2013/22/schedule/9/paragraph/52" title="Go to Crime and Courts Act 2013 Sch. 9 para. 52" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 9 para. 52</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/954">S.I. 2014/954</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/954/article/2/c" title="Go to The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014 art. 2(c)" rel="cite">art. 2(c)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/954/article/3" title="Go to The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>) (with transitional provisions and savings in <a class="LegCitation" title="Go to item of legislation" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/956">S.I. 2014/956</a>, arts. 3-11)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-f2c9dd369a8da1cd76a2d90ed70fd394"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-f2c9dd369a


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-11)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-f2c9dd369a8da1cd76a2d90ed70fd394"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-f2c9dd369a8da1cd76a2d90ed70fd394" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F174</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 61(7)(a) substituted (6.4.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2007/15">Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2007/15/section/148" title="Go to Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 s. 148" rel="cite">s. 148</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2007/15/schedule/13/paragraph/41" title="Go to Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 Sch. 13 para. 41" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 13 para. 41</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2007/15/section/89" title="Go to Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 s. 89" rel="cite">s. 89</a>); <a class="LegCitation" title="The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/768">S.I. 2014/768</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/768/article/2/1/b" title="Go to The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2014 art. 2(1)(b)" rel="cite">art. 2(1)(b)</a></span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-62"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><


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nforcement Act 2007 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2014 art. 2(1)(b)" rel="cite">art. 2(1)(b)</a></span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-62"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">62</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Restrictions on recovery of damages for infringement.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-62-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In proceedings for infringement of a patent damages shall not be awarded, and no order shall be made for an account of profits, against a defendant or defender who proves that at the date of the infringement he was not aware, and had no reasonable grounds for supposing, that the patent existed; and a person shall not be taken to have been so aware or to have had reasonable grounds for so supposing by reason only of the application to a product of the word “patent” or “patented”, or any word or words expressing or implying that a patent has been obtained for the product, unless the number of the patent <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-9546234221e4b7fea8a9d69d9aeb4318" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-9546234221e4b7fea8a9d69d9aeb4318">F175</a><span class="LegAddition">or a relevant i


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span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">which clearly associates the product with the number of the patent.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-62-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In proceedings for infringement of a patent the court or the comptroller may, if it or he thinks fit, refuse to award any damages or make any such order in respect of an infringement committed during <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-00b736f1d8502ba53fd7a571a2b411d9" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-00b736f1d8502ba53fd7a571a2b411d9">F177</a><span class="LegSubstitution">the further period specified in</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> section 25(4) above, but before the payment of the renewal fee and any additional fee prescribed for the purposes of that subsection.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-62-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where an amendment of the specification of a patent has been allowed under any of the provisions of this Act, <span class="LegTerm"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-6241f79a660fe14a012ac5edc68168b9" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-6241f79a66


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.I. 2014/2330</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/schedule" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 Sch." rel="cite">Sch.</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/5" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 5" rel="cite">art. 5</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-ba312c78cc7fd30c203783d085b9c8c7"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-ba312c78cc7fd30c203783d085b9c8c7" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F176</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 62(1A) inserted (1.10.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property Act 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18">Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/15/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 ss. 15(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 15(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/24/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 24(1)" rel="cite">24(1)</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitio


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n" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/2/paragraph/15" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 Sch. 2 para. 15" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2 para. 15</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2005/2471">S.I. 2005/2471</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2005/2471/article/2/g" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005 art. 2(g)" rel="cite">art. 2(g)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-6241f79a660fe14a012ac5edc68168b9"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-6241f79a660fe14a012ac5edc68168b9" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F178</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 62(3) substituted (29.4.2006) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028">Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1028)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028/article/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 art. 1" rel="cite">art. 1</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028/schedule/2/paragraph/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 Sch. 2 para. 2" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2 para. 2</strong></a></span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-63"></a


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" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 Sch. 2 para. 2" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2 para. 2</strong></a></span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-63"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">63</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Relief for infringement of partially valid patent.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-63-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">If the validity of a patent is put in issue in proceedings for infringement of the patent and it is found that the patent is only partially valid, the court or the comptroller may, subject to subsection (2) below, grant relief in respect of that part of the patent which is found to be valid and infringed.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-63-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where in any such proceedings it is found that a patent is only partially valid, the court or the comptroller shall <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-8115e1350ddf75f28e5d37bd8ab3f2ba" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-8115e1350ddf75f28e5d37bd8ab3f2ba">F179</a><span class="LegSubstitution">, when


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;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">and any relief granted shall be subject to the discretion of the court or the comptroller as to costs or expenses and as to the date from which damages or an account should be reckoned.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-63-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">As a condition of relief under this section the court or the comptroller may direct that the specification of the patent shall be amended to its or his satisfaction upon an application made for that purpose under section 75 below, and an application may be so made accordingly, whether or not all other issues in the proceedings have been determined.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-63-4"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-3d18ef5f46434d296ed5b77363c92180" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-3d18ef5f46434d296ed5b77363c92180">F180</a><span class="LegAddition">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">The court or the comptroller may also grant relief under this section in the case of a European patent (</span><span class="LegAddition">UK</span><span class="LegAddition">) on condition that the claims of the patent are limited to its or his


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t relief under this section in the case of a European patent (</span><span class="LegAddition">UK</span><span class="LegAddition">) on condition that the claims of the patent are limited to its or his satisfaction by the European Patent Office at the request of the proprietor.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-8115e1350ddf75f28e5d37bd8ab3f2ba"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-8115e1350ddf75f28e5d37bd8ab3f2ba" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F179</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 63(2) substituted (29.4.2006) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028">Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1028)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028/article/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 art. 1" rel="cite">art. 1</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028/schedule/2/paragraph/3" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 Sch. 2 para. 3" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2 para. 3</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-3d18ef5f46434d296ed5b77363c92180"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegComm


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on">makes in good faith effective and serious preparations to do such an act,</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">has the right to continue to do the act or, as the case may be, to do the act, notwithstanding the grant of the patent; but this right does not extend to granting a licence to another person to do the act.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-64-2"><span class="LegAddition">(2)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">If the act was done, or the preparations were made, in the course of a business, the person entitled to the right conferred by subsection (1) may—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-64-2-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">authorise the doing of that act by any partners of his for the time being in that business, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-64-2-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">assign that right, or transmit it on death (or in the case of a body corporate on its dissolution), to any person who acquires that part of the business in the course of which the act was done or the preparations were made.</span></span>&#xD;<


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(or in the case of a body corporate on its dissolution), to any person who acquires that part of the business in the course of which the act was done or the preparations were made.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-64-3"><span class="LegAddition">(3)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Where a product is disposed of to another in exercise of the rights conferred by subsection (1) or (2), that other and any person claiming through him may deal with the product in the same way as if it had been disposed of by the registered proprietor of the patent.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020931"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020931" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F181</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 64 substituted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/17" title="Go to Copyright, Desi


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ed under this section, then, if in any subsequent proceedings before the court or the comptroller for infringement of the patent concerned or for revocation of the patent a final order or judgment or interlocutor is made or given in favour of the party relying on the validity of the patent as found in the earlier proceedings, that party shall, unless the court or the comptroller otherwise directs, be entitled to his costs or expenses as between solicitor and own client (other than the costs or expenses of any appeal in the subsequent proceedings).</span>&#xD;</p><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-66"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">66</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Proceedings for infringement by a co-owner.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-66-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In the application of section 60 above to a patent of which there are two or more joint proprietors the reference to the proprietor shall be construed—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-66-1-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in relation to any act, as a reference to that proprietor or those proprietors who, by virtue of section 36 above or any agreement ref


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tary-key-95bfd368e7d61a66ed61e3102d84de7d"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-95bfd368e7d61a66ed61e3102d84de7d" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F182</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 68 repealed (29.4.2006) by virtue of <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028">Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1028)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028/article/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 art. 1" rel="cite">art. 1</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028/schedule/2/paragraph/4/a" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 Sch. 2 para. 4(a)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2 para. 4(a)</strong></a>, Sch. 4</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-036d8aad614b6bb57c0f63c2aca7ea9a"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-036d8aad614b6bb57c0f63c2aca7ea9a" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F183</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 68 inserted (29.4.2006) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028">Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1028)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/u


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al Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028">Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1028)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028/article/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 art. 1" rel="cite">art. 1</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2006/1028/schedule/2/paragraph/4/b" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2006 Sch. 2 para. 4(b)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2 para. 4(b)</strong></a></span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-69"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">69</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Infringement of rights conferred by publication of application.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-69-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where an application for a patent for an invention is published, then, subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, the applicant shall have, as from the publication and until the grant of the patent, the same right as he would have had, if the patent had been granted on the date of the publication of the application, to bring proceedings in the court or before the comptroller for damages in respect of any act which would have


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ve had, if the patent had been granted on the date of the publication of the application, to bring proceedings in the court or before the comptroller for damages in respect of any act which would have infringed the patent; and (subject to subsections (2) and (3) below) references in sections 60 to 62 and 66 to 68 above to a patent and the proprietor of a patent shall be respectively construed as including references to any such application and the applicant, and references to a patent being in force, being granted, being valid or existing shall be construed accordingly.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-69-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">The applicant shall be entitled to bring proceedings by virtue of this section in respect of any act only—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-69-2-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">after the patent has been granted; and</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-69-2-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">if the act would, if the patent had been granted on the date of the publication of the application, have infringed not only the patent, but also the claims (as interpreted by the description and any drawings referred to in the description or claims) in the form in which they were contained in the application imme


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 not only the patent, but also the claims (as interpreted by the description and any drawings referred to in the description or claims) in the form in which they were contained in the application immediately before the preparations for its publication were completed by the Patent Office.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-69-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Section 62(2) and (3) above shall not apply to an infringement of the rights conferred by this section, but in considering the amount of any damages for such an infringement, the court or the comptroller shall consider whether or not it would have been reasonable to expect, from a consideration of the application as published under section 16 above, that a patent would be granted conferring on the proprietor of the patent protection from an act of the same description as that found to infringe those rights, and if the court or the comptroller finds that it would not have been reasonable, it or he shall reduce the damages to such an amount as it or he thinks just.</span>&#xD;</p><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-70"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="View the commentary text for this item">F184</a><span class="LegSubstitution">70</span></span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle


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aryLink" href="#commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="View the commentary text for this item">F184</a><span class="LegSubstitution">70</span></span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"><span class="LegSubstitution"> Threats of infringement proceedings</span><span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70-1"><span class="LegSubstitution">(1)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">A communication contains a “threat of infringement proceedings” if a reasonable person in the position of a recipient would understand from the communication that—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70-1-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">a patent exists, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70-1-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">a person intends to bring proceedings (whether in a court in the United Kingdom or elsewhere) against another person for infringement of the patent by—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class=


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g proceedings (whether in a court in the United Kingdom or elsewhere) against another person for infringement of the patent by—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-70-1-b-i"><span class="LegSubstitution">(i)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">an act done in the United Kingdom, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-70-1-b-ii"><span class="LegSubstitution">(ii)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">an act which, if done, would be done in the United Kingdom.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70-2"><span class="LegSubstitution">(2)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">References in this section and in section 70C to a “recipient” include, in the case of a communication directed to the public or a section of the public, references to a person to whom the communication is directed.</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">


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b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F184</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Ss. 70-70F substituted for s. 70 (1.10.2017) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14">Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/1/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 ss. 1(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 1(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/2/1/a" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 2(1)(a)" rel="cite">reg. 2(1)(a)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div></div><a cla


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ulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-70A"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No"><span class="LegSubstitution">70A</span></span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"><span class="LegSubstitution">Actionable threats</span><span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70A-1"><span class="LegSubstitution">(1)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">Subject to subsections (2) to (5), a threat of infringement proceedings made by any person is actionable by any person aggrieved by the threat.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70A-2"><span class="LegSubstitution">(2)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">A threat of infringement proceedings is not actionable if the infringement is alleged to consist of—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70A-2-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitut


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class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70A-2-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">where the invention is a product, making a product for disposal or importing a product for disposal, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70A-2-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">where the invention is a process, using a process.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70A-3"><span class="LegSubstitution">(3)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">A threat of infringement proceedings is not actionable if the infringement is alleged to consist of an act which, if done, would constitute an infringement of a kind mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (b).</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70A-4"><span class="LegSubstitution">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">A threat of infringement proceedings is not actionable if the threat—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70A-4-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="Leg


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nable if the threat—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70A-4-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">is made to a person who has done, or intends to do, an act mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (b) in relation to a product or process, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70A-4-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">is a threat of proceedings for an infringement alleged to consist of doing anything else in relation to that product or process.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70A-5"><span class="LegSubstitution">(5)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">A threat of infringement proceedings which is not an express threat is not actionable if it is contained in a permitted communication.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70A-6"><span class="LegSubstitution">(6)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">In sections 70C and 70D “</span><span class="LegTerm"><span class="LegSubstitution">an actionable threat</span></span><span class="LegSubstitution">” means a thr


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gP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">In sections 70C and 70D “</span><span class="LegTerm"><span class="LegSubstitution">an actionable threat</span></span><span class="LegSubstitution">” means a threat of infringement proceedings that is actionable in accordance with this section.</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F184</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Ss. 70-70F substituted for s. 70 (1.10.2017) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14">Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/1/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 ss. 1(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 1(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017


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l Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/2/1/a" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 2(1)(a)" rel="cite">reg. 2(1)(a)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-70B"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No"><span class="LegSubstitution">70B</span></span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"><span class="LegSubstitution">Permitted communications</span><span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70B-1"><span class="LegSubstitution">(1)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">For the purposes of section 70A(5), a communication containing a threat of infringement proceedings is a “permitted communication” if—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section


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munication containing a threat of infringement proceedings is a “permitted communication” if—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-1-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">the communication, so far as it contains information that relates to the threat, is made for a permitted purpose;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-1-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">all of the information that relates to the threat is information that—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-70B-1-b-i"><span class="LegSubstitution">(i)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">is necessary for that purpose (see subsection (5)(a) to (c) for some examples of necessary information), and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-70B-1-b-ii"><span class="LegSubstitution">(ii)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">the person making the communication reasonably believes is true.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70B-2"><span c


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Substitution">the person making the communication reasonably believes is true.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70B-2"><span class="LegSubstitution">(2)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">Each of the following is a “permitted purpose”—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-2-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">giving notice that a patent exists;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-2-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">discovering whether, or by whom, a patent has been infringed by an act mentioned in section 70A(2)(a) or (b);</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-2-c"><span class="LegSubstitution">(c)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">giving notice that a person has a right in or under a patent, where another person's awareness of the right is relevant to any proceedings that may be brought in respect of the patent.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70B-3"><span clas


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s relevant to any proceedings that may be brought in respect of the patent.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70B-3"><span class="LegSubstitution">(3)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">The court may, having regard to the nature of the purposes listed in subsection (2)(a) to (c), treat any other purpose as a “permitted purpose” if it considers that it is in the interests of justice to do so.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70B-4"><span class="LegSubstitution">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">But the following may not be treated as a “permitted purpose”—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-4-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">requesting a person to cease doing, for commercial purposes, anything in relation to a product or process,</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-4-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">requesting a person to deliver up or destroy a product, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span clas


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pan><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">requesting a person to deliver up or destroy a product, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-4-c"><span class="LegSubstitution">(c)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">requesting a person to give an undertaking relating to a product or process.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70B-5"><span class="LegSubstitution">(5)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">If any of the following information is included in a communication made for a permitted purpose, it is information that is “necessary for that purpose” (see subsection (1)(b)(i))—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-5-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">a statement that a patent exists and is in force or that an application for a patent has been made;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-5-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">details of the patent, or of a right in or under the patent, which—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p cl


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ss="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">details of the patent, or of a right in or under the patent, which—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-70B-5-b-i"><span class="LegSubstitution">(i)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">are accurate in all material respects, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP4Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP4No" id="section-70B-5-b-ii"><span class="LegSubstitution">(ii)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP4Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">are not misleading in any material respect; and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70B-5-c"><span class="LegSubstitution">(c)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">information enabling the identification of the products or processes in respect of which it is alleged that acts infringing the patent have been carried out.</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F184</a></span>


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23857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F184</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Ss. 70-70F substituted for s. 70 (1.10.2017) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14">Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/1/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 ss. 1(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 1(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/2/1/a" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 2(1)(a)" rel="cite">reg. 2(1)(a)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID


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e="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-70C"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No"><span class="LegSubstitution">70C</span></span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"><span class="LegSubstitution">Remedies and defences</span><span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70C-1"><span class="LegSubstitution">(1)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">Proceedings in respect of an actionable threat may be brought against the person who made the threat for—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70C-1-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">a declaration that the threat is unjustified;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70C-1-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">an injunction against the continuance of the threat;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix L


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"LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">an injunction against the continuance of the threat;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70C-1-c"><span class="LegSubstitution">(c)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">damages in respect of any loss sustained by the aggrieved person by reason of the threat.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70C-2"><span class="LegSubstitution">(2)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">In the application of subsection (1) to Scotland—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70C-2-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">“</span><span class="LegTerm"><span class="LegSubstitution">declaration</span></span><span class="LegSubstitution">” means “declarator”, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70C-2-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">“</span><span class="LegTerm"><span class="LegSubstitution">injunction</span></span><span class="LegSubstitution">” means “interdict”.</span></spa


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LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">“</span><span class="LegTerm"><span class="LegSubstitution">injunction</span></span><span class="LegSubstitution">” means “interdict”.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70C-3"><span class="LegSubstitution">(3)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">It is a defence for the person who made the threat to show that the act in respect of which proceedings were threatened constitutes (or if done would constitute) an infringement of the patent.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70C-4"><span class="LegSubstitution">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">It is a defence for the person who made the threat to show—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70C-4-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">that, despite having taken reasonable steps, the person has not identified anyone who has done an act mentioned in section 70A(2)(a) or (b) in relation to the product or the use of a process which is the subject of the threat, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70C-4-b"><span class="LegSubstitut


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e use of a process which is the subject of the threat, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70C-4-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">that the person notified the recipient, before or at the time of making the threat, of the steps taken.</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F184</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Ss. 70-70F substituted for s. 70 (1.10.2017) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14">Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/1/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 ss. 1(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 1(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regula


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al Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/2/1/a" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 2(1)(a)" rel="cite">reg. 2(1)(a)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-70D"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No"><span class="LegSubstitution">70D</span></span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"><span class="LegSubstitution">Professional advisers</span><span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70D-1"><span class="LegSubstitution">(1)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">Proceedings in respect of an actionable threat may not be brought against a professional adviser (or any person vicariously liable for 


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pan class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">Proceedings in respect of an actionable threat may not be brought against a professional adviser (or any person vicariously liable for the actions of that professional adviser) if the conditions in subsection (3) are met.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70D-2"><span class="LegSubstitution">(2)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">In this section “</span><span class="LegTerm"><span class="LegSubstitution">professional adviser</span></span><span class="LegSubstitution">” means a person who, in relation to the making of the communication containing the threat—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70D-2-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">is acting in a professional capacity in providing legal services or the services of a trade mark attorney or a patent attorney, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70D-2-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">is regulated in the provision of legal services, or the services of a trade mark attorney or a patent attorney, by one or more regulatory bodies (whether through


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gP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">is regulated in the provision of legal services, or the services of a trade mark attorney or a patent attorney, by one or more regulatory bodies (whether through membership of a regulatory body, the issue of a licence to practise or any other means).</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70D-3"><span class="LegSubstitution">(3)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">The conditions are that—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70D-3-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">in making the communication the professional adviser is acting on the instructions of another person, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70D-3-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">when the communication is made the professional adviser identifies the person on whose instructions the adviser is acting.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70D-4"><span class="LegSubstitution">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">This section does not affect any liabili


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ass="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70D-4"><span class="LegSubstitution">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">This section does not affect any liability of the person on whose instructions the professional adviser is acting.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70D-5"><span class="LegSubstitution">(5)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">It is for a person asserting that subsection (1) applies to prove (if required) that at the material time—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70D-5-a"><span class="LegSubstitution">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">the person concerned was acting as a professional adviser, and</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-70D-5-b"><span class="LegSubstitution">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">the conditions in subsection (3) were met.</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go b


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gCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F184</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Ss. 70-70F substituted for s. 70 (1.10.2017) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14">Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/1/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 ss. 1(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 1(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/2/1/a" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 2(1)(a)" rel="cite">reg. 2(1)(a)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cit


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s="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-70E"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No"><span class="LegSubstitution">70E</span></span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"><span class="LegSubstitution">Supplementary: pending registration</span><span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70E-1"><span class="LegSubstitution">(1)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">In sections 70 and 70B references to a patent include references to an application for a patent that has been published under section 16.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-70E-2"><span class="LegSubstitution">(2)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">Where the threat of infringement proceedings is made after an application has been published (but before grant) the reference in section 70C(3) to “the patent” is to be treated as a reference to the patent as granted in pursuance of that application.</span></span>&#xD;</p


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n has been published (but before grant) the reference in section 70C(3) to “the patent” is to be treated as a reference to the patent as granted in pursuance of that application.</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F184</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Ss. 70-70F substituted for s. 70 (1.10.2017) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14">Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/1/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 ss. 1(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 1(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/2/1/a" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencemen


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l="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/2/1/a" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 2(1)(a)" rel="cite">reg. 2(1)(a)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-70F"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No"><span class="LegSubstitution">70F</span></span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"><span class="LegSubstitution">Supplementary: proceedings for delivery up </span><span class="LegSubstitution">etc.</span><span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegRHS LegP1Text"><span class="LegSubstitution">In section 70(1)(b) the reference to proceedings for infringement of a patent includes a reference to proceedings for an order under section 61(1)(b) (order to deliver up or destroy patented products </span><span class="LegSubstitution">etc.</span><span class="LegSubstitution">) </span><span class="LegSubstitution"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-bad91802fc7ea59dedf2db15a


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n">etc.</span><span class="LegSubstitution">) </span><span class="LegSubstitution"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-bad91802fc7ea59dedf2db15a34a9809" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-bad91802fc7ea59dedf2db15a34a9809">F185</a><span class="LegAddition">and proceedings in the Unified Patent Court for an order for delivery up made in accordance with articles 32(1)(c) and 62(3) of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> &#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-0c1cd21b3431b8ad0614c223857a39c4" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F184</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Ss. 70-70F substituted for s. 70 (1.10.2017) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14">Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/1/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 ss. 1(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 1(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellect


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" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 ss. 1(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 1(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/2/1/a" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 2(1)(a)" rel="cite">reg. 2(1)(a)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-bad91802fc7ea59dedf2db15a34a9809"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-bad91802fc7ea59dedf2db15a34a9809" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F185</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 70F inserted (1.10.2017) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14">Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14)</a>, <a class="LegCitation


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">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-fcd141455cb6b8ea8dbf104a85d3f6a3" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-fcd141455cb6b8ea8dbf104a85d3f6a3">F186</a><span class="LegAddition">Declaration or declarator as to non-infringement</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span><span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h3><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-fcd141455cb6b8ea8dbf104a85d3f6a3"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-fcd141455cb6b8ea8dbf104a85d3f6a3" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F186</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 71 crossheading inserted (1.10.2017) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14">Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/1/4" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 ss. 1(4)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 1(4)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) A


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ref="/id/ukpga/2017/14/section/8" title="Go to Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 8" rel="cite">8</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2017/771">S.I. 2017/771</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/2/1/a" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 2(1)(a)" rel="cite">reg. 2(1)(a)</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2017/771/regulation/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-71"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1ContainerFirst"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">71</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitleFirst">Declaration or declarator as to non-infringement<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-71-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Without prejudice to the court’s jurisdiction to make a declaration or declarator apart from this section, a declaration or declarator that an act does not, or a proposed act would not,


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RHS LegP2Text">Without prejudice to the court’s jurisdiction to make a declaration or declarator apart from this section, a declaration or declarator that an act does not, or a proposed act would not, constitute an infringement of a patent may be made by the court or the comptroller in proceedings between the person doing or proposing to do the act and the proprietor of the patent, notwithstanding that no assertion to the contrary has been made by the proprietor, if it is shown—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-71-1-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">that that person has applied in writing to the proprietor for a written acknowledgment to the effect of the declaration or declarator claimed, and has furnished him with full particulars in writing of the act in question; and</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-71-1-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">that the proprietor has refused or failed to give any such acknowledgment.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-71-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to section 72(5) below, a declaration made by the comptroller under this section shall have the same effect as a declaration or declarator by the court.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegClearPblock"></div><h3 class="LegPblock"><span class="LegPblo


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y the comptroller under this section shall have the same effect as a declaration or declarator by the court.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegClearPblock"></div><h3 class="LegPblock"><span class="LegPblockTitle"> Revocation of patents<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h3><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-72"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1ContainerFirst"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">72</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitleFirst"> Power to revoke patents on application.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to the following provisions of this Act, the court or the comptroller may <a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-63462154cab889b2f4817d5f2a6138a6" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-63462154cab889b2f4817d5f2a6138a6">F187</a>... by order revoke a patent for an invention <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-5777cb05e22f2ed60f291a1fa10cc880" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-5777cb05e22f2ed60f291a1fa10cc880">F188</a><span class="LegAddition">on the application of any person (includi


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e22f2ed60f291a1fa10cc880" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-5777cb05e22f2ed60f291a1fa10cc880">F188</a><span class="LegAddition">on the application of any person (including the proprietor of the patent)</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> on (but only on) any of the following grounds, that is to say—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-1-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the invention is not a patentable invention;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-1-b"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020941" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020941">F189</a><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">that the patent was granted to a person who was not entitled to be granted that patent;</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-1-c">(c)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the specification of the patent does not disclose the invention clearly enough and completely enough for it to be performed by a person skilled in the art;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-1-d">(d)</span>


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ough and completely enough for it to be performed by a person skilled in the art;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-1-d">(d)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the matter disclosed in the specification of the patent extends beyond that disclosed in the application for the patent, as filed, or, if the patent was granted on a new application filed under section 8(3), 12 or 37(4) above or as mentioned in <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-3cc25495058d797c283752b4adc96752" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-3cc25495058d797c283752b4adc96752">F190</a><span class="LegSubstitution">section 15(9)</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> above, in the earlier application, as filed;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-1-e">(e)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the protection conferred by the patent has been extended by an amendment which should not have been allowed.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">An application for the revocation of a patent on the ground mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-2-a">(a)</span><span class="Le


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on of a patent on the ground mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-2-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">may only be made by a person found by the court in an action for a declaration or declarator, or found by the court or the comptroller on a reference under section 37 above, to be entitled to be granted that patent or to be granted a patent for part of the matter comprised in the specification of the patent sought to be revoked; and</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-2-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">may not be made if that action was commenced or that reference was made after <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-5a4aa8a333198ea8a977adc8873f4e3f" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-5a4aa8a333198ea8a977adc8873f4e3f">F191</a><span class="LegSubstitution">the second anniversary of</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> the date of the grant of the patent sought to be revoked, unless it is shown that any person registered as a proprietor of the patent knew at the time of the grant or of the transfer of the patent to him that he was not entitled to the patent.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-3">(3)</span><span class="


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 transfer of the patent to him that he was not entitled to the patent.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020951" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020951">F192</a></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-4">(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">An order under this section may be an order for the unconditional revocation of the patent or, where the court or the comptroller determines that one of the grounds mentioned in subsection (1) above has been established, but only so as to invalidate the patent to a limited extent, an order that the patent should be revoked unless within a specified time the specification is amended <a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-63f863d75f3d5fe16908e291157285ff" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-63f863d75f3d5fe16908e291157285ff">F193</a>... to the satisfaction of the court or the comptroller, as the case may be.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-4A"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-5130b3e5c71d563da6053ac8882fe69a" title="View the commentary text for


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gDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-4A"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-5130b3e5c71d563da6053ac8882fe69a" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-5130b3e5c71d563da6053ac8882fe69a">F194</a><span class="LegAddition">(4A)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">The reference in subsection (4) above to the specification being amended is to its being amended under section 75 below and also, in the case of a European patent (</span><span class="LegAddition">UK</span><span class="LegAddition">), to its being amended under any provision of the European Patent Convention under which the claims of the patent may be limited by amendment at the request of the proprietor.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-5">(5)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">A decision of the comptroller or on appeal from the comptroller shall not estop any party to civil proceedings in which infringement of a patent is in issue from alleging invalidity of the patent on any of the grounds referred to in subsection (1) above, whether or not any of the issues involved were decided in the said decision.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-6">(6)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where the comptroller refu


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n the said decision.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-6">(6)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where the comptroller refuses to grant an application made to him by any person under this section, no application (otherwise than by way of appeal or by way of putting validity in issue in proceedings for infringement) may be made to the court by that person under this section in relation to the patent concerned, without the leave of the court.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-72-7">(7)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where the comptroller has not disposed of an application made to him under this section, the applicant may not apply to the court under this section in respect of the patent concerned unless either—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-7-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the proprietor of the patent agrees that the applicant may so apply, or</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-72-7-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the comptroller certifies in writing that it appears to him that the question whether the patent should be revoked is one which would more properly be determined by the court.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsG


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 appears to him that the question whether the patent should be revoked is one which would more properly be determined by the court.</span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-63462154cab889b2f4817d5f2a6138a6"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-63462154cab889b2f4817d5f2a6138a6" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F187</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 72(1) repealed (1.10.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 s. 17(1)" rel="cite">s. 17(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/2/paragraph/18" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 Sch. 2 para. 18" rel="cite">Sch. 2 para. 18</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/3" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 Sch. 3" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 3</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2005/2471">S.I. 2005/2471</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2005/2471/article/2/f/g" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005 art. 2(f)(g)" rel="cite">art. 2(f)(g)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCo


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="/id/uksi/2005/2471/article/2/f/g" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005 art. 2(f)(g)" rel="cite">art. 2(f)(g)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-5777cb05e22f2ed60f291a1fa10cc880"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-5777cb05e22f2ed60f291a1fa10cc880" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F188</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 72(1) inserted (1.10.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 s. 17(1)" rel="cite">s. 17(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/2/paragraph/18" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 Sch. 2 para. 18" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 2 para. 18</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2005/2471">S.I. 2005/2471</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2005/2471/article/2/g" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005 art. 2(g)" rel="cite">art. 2(g)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020941"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020941" title="Go back to reference for this commentary it


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iv><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020941"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020941" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F189</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 72(1)(<em>b</em>) substituted by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/18" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 18" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 5 para. 18</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-3cc25495058d797c283752b4adc96752"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-3cc25495058d797c283752b4adc96752" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F190</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 72(1)(d) substituted (1.1.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2004/2357">The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2357)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/2357/article/1/2" title="Go to The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 arts. 1(2)" rel="cite">arts. 1(2)</a>, <a class="L


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Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2357)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/2357/article/1/2" title="Go to The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 arts. 1(2)" rel="cite">arts. 1(2)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/2357/article/12" title="Go to The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 12" rel="cite"><strong>12</strong></a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2004/2357/article/20" title="Go to The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 arts. 20-23" rel="cite">arts. 20-23</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-5a4aa8a333198ea8a977adc8873f4e3f"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-5a4aa8a333198ea8a977adc8873f4e3f" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F191</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 72(2)(b) substituted (1.10.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property Act 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18">Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/24/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 s. 24(1)" rel="cite">s. 24(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/schedule/paragraph/3/1/b" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 Sch. para. 3(1)(b)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. para. 3(1)(b)</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/20


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ite"><strong>Sch. para. 3(1)(b)</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330">S.I. 2014/2330</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/schedule" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 Sch." rel="cite">Sch.</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020951"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020951" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F192</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 72(3) repealed by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/303/2" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 303(2)" rel="cite">s. 303(2)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/8" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 8" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 8</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-63f863d75f3d5fe16908e291157285ff"><p class="LegCom


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yright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 8" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 8</strong></a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-63f863d75f3d5fe16908e291157285ff"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-63f863d75f3d5fe16908e291157285ff" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F193</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 72(4) repealed (13.12.2007) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/4" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 ss. 4" rel="cite">ss. 4</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 17(1)" rel="cite">17(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/3" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 Sch. 3" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 3</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396">S.I. 2007/3396</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396/article/2/f/i" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 art. 2(f)(i)" rel="cite">art. 2(f)(i)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-5130b3e5c71d563da6053ac8882fe69a"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-5130b3e5c71d


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a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-5130b3e5c71d563da6053ac8882fe69a"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-5130b3e5c71d563da6053ac8882fe69a" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F194</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 72(4A) inserted (13.12.2007) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/4" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 ss. 4" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 4</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 17(1)" rel="cite">17(1)</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396">S.I. 2007/3396</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2007/3396/article/2/f" title="Go to The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 art. 2(f)" rel="cite">art. 2(f)</a></span></p></div></div><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-73"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1Container"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">73</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitle"> Comptroller’s power to revoke patents on his own initiative.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix L


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s on his own initiative.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-73-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">If it appears to the comptroller that an invention for which a patent has been granted formed part of the state of the art by virtue only of section 2(3) above, he may on his own initiative by order revoke the patent, but shall not do so without giving the proprietor of the patent an opportunity of making any observations and of amending the specification of the patent so as to exclude any matter which formed part of the state of the art as aforesaid without contravening section 76 below.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-73-1A"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-1cac2e225655a521c2e8a33dd74f8cf8" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-1cac2e225655a521c2e8a33dd74f8cf8">F195</a><span class="LegAddition">(1A)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">Where the comptroller issues an opinion under section 74A that section 1(1)(a) or (b) is not satisfied in relation to an invention for which there is a patent, the comptroller may revoke the patent.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix L


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r section 74A that section 1(1)(a) or (b) is not satisfied in relation to an invention for which there is a patent, the comptroller may revoke the patent.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-73-1B"><span class="LegAddition">(1B)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">The power under subsection (1A) may not be exercised before—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-73-1B-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the end of the period in which the proprietor of the patent may apply under the rules (by virtue of section 74B) for a review of the opinion, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-73-1B-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">if the proprietor applies for a review, the decision on the review is made (or, if there is an appeal against that decision, the appeal is determined).</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-73-1C"><span class="LegAddition">(1C)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">The comptroller shall not exercise the power under subsection (1A) without giving the proprietor of t


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ass="LegAddition">(1C)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">The comptroller shall not exercise the power under subsection (1A) without giving the proprietor of the patent an opportunity to make any observations and to amend the specification of the patent without contravening section 76.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-73-2"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020961" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020961">F196</a><span class="LegAddition">(2)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">If it appears to the comptroller that a patent under this Act and a European patent (</span><span class="LegAddition">UK</span><span class="LegAddition">) have been granted for the same invention having the same priority date, and that the applications for the patents were filed by the same applicant or his successor in title, he shall give the proprietor of the patent under this Act an opportunity of making observations and of amending the specification of the patent, and if the proprietor fails to satisfy the comptroller that there are not two patents in respect of the same invention, or to amend the specification so as to prevent there being two patents in respect of the same invention, the comptroller shall revoke the pat


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here are not two patents in respect of the same invention, or to amend the specification so as to prevent there being two patents in respect of the same invention, the comptroller shall revoke the patent.</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-73-3"><span class="LegAddition">(3)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">The comptroller shall not take action under subsection (2) above before—</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-73-3-a"><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">the end of the period for filing an opposition to the European patent (</span><span class="LegAddition">UK</span><span class="LegAddition">) under the European Patent Convention, or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-73-3-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">if later, the date on which opposition proceedings are finally disposed of;</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">and he shall not then take any action if the decision is not to maintain the European patent or if it is amended so that there are not two patents in respect of the same invention.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Cont


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any action if the decision is not to maintain the European patent or if it is amended so that there are not two patents in respect of the same invention.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-73-4"><span class="LegAddition">(4)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text"><span class="LegAddition">The comptroller shall not take action under subsection (2) above if the European patent (</span><span class="LegAddition">UK</span><span class="LegAddition">) has been surrendered under section 29(1) above before the date on which by virtue of section 25(1) above the patent under this Act is to be treated as having been granted or, if proceedings for the surrender of the European patent (</span><span class="LegAddition">UK</span><span class="LegAddition">) have been begun before that date, until those proceedings are finally disposed of; and he shall not then take any action if the decision is to accept the surrender of the European patent.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-1cac2e225655a521c2e8a33dd74f8cf8"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-1cac2e225655a521c2e8a33dd74f8cf8" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F195</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 73(1A)-(1C) inserted (1.10.


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ntaryType"><a href="#reference-key-1cac2e225655a521c2e8a33dd74f8cf8" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F195</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 73(1A)-(1C) inserted (1.10.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property Act 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18">Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/16/4" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 ss. 16(4)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 16(4)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/24/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 24(1)" rel="cite">24(1)</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330">S.I. 2014/2330</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/schedule" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 Sch." rel="cite">Sch.</a> (with <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/6" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 6" rel="cite">art. 6</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020961"><p clas


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ntellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 6" rel="cite">art. 6</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-c8020961"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-c8020961" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F196</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 73(2)(3)(4) substituted for subsections (2) and (3) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48">Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/section/295" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s. 295" rel="cite">s. 295</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/5/paragraph/19" title="Go to Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Sch. 5 para. 19" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. 5 para. 19</strong></a></span></p></div></div><div class="LegClearPblock"></div><h3 class="LegPblock"><span class="LegPblockTitle"> Putting validity in issue<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h3><a class="LegAnchorID" id="section-74"></a><h4 class="LegClearFix LegP1ContainerFirst"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">74</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitleFirst"> Proceedings in which validity of patent may be put in issue.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="


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gP1ContainerFirst"><span class="LegDS LegP1No">74</span><span class="LegDS LegP1GroupTitleFirst"> Proceedings in which validity of patent may be put in issue.<span class="LegExtentRestriction" title="Applies to "><span class="btr"></span>U.K.<span class="bbl"></span><span class="bbr"></span></span></span></h4><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-74-1">(1)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Subject to the following provisions of this section, the validity of a patent may be put in issue—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-74-1-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">by way of defence, in proceedings for infringement of the patent under section 61 above or proceedings under section 69 above for infringement of rights conferred by the publication of an application;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-74-1-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in proceedings <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-91b3e3edcd7edaeb555793772d40662f" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-91b3e3edcd7edaeb555793772d40662f">F197</a><span class="LegSubstitution">in respect of an actionable threat under section 70A</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> above;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><s


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197</a><span class="LegSubstitution">in respect of an actionable threat under section 70A</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> above;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-74-1-c">(c)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in proceedings in which a declaration in relation to the patent is sought under section 71 above;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-74-1-d">(d)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in proceedings before the court or the comptroller under section 72 above for the revocation of the patent;</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-74-1-e">(e)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">in proceedings under section 58 above.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-74-2">(2)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">The validity of a patent may not be put in issue in any other proceedings and, in particular, no proceedings may be instituted (whether under this Act or otherwise) seeking only a declaration as to the validity or invalidity of a patent.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-74-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">The only grounds on which the validity of a patent may be put in issue (whether in proceedings for re


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span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-74-3">(3)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">The only grounds on which the validity of a patent may be put in issue (whether in proceedings for revocation under section 72 above or otherwise) are the grounds on which the patent may be revoked under that section.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-74-4">(4)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">No determination shall be made in any proceedings mentioned in subsection (1) above on the validity of a patent which any person puts in issue on the ground mentioned in section 72(1)(b) above unless—</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-74-4-a">(a)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">it has been determined in entitlement proceedings commenced by that person or in the proceedings in which the validity of the patent is in issue that the patent should have been granted to him and not some other person; and</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-74-4-b">(b)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">except where it has been so determined in entitlement proceedings, the proceedings in which the validity of the patent is in issue are commenced <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-093175beb0804c043b2f7393f78d9d3d" title="View the commenta


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 validity of the patent is in issue are commenced <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-093175beb0804c043b2f7393f78d9d3d" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-093175beb0804c043b2f7393f78d9d3d">F198</a><span class="LegSubstitution">on or before the second anniversary of</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> the date of the grant of the patent or it is shown that any person registered as a proprietor of the patent knew at the time of the grant or of the transfer of the patent to him that he was not entitled to the patent.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-74-5">(5)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where the validity of a patent is put in issue by way of defence or counterclaim the court or the comptroller shall, if it or he thinks it just to do so, give the defendant an opportunity to comply with the condition in subsection (4)(a) above.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-74-6">(6)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">In subsection (4) above “<span class="LegTerm" id="term-entitlement-proceedings">entitlement proceedings</span>”, in relation to a patent, means a reference under <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020971" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020971"


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patent, means a reference under <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-c8020971" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-c8020971">F199</a><span class="LegAddition">section 37(1) above</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span> on the ground that the patent was granted to a person not entitled to it or proceedings for a declaration or declarator that it was so granted.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-74-7">(7)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">Where proceedings with respect to a patent are pending in the court under any provision of this Act mentioned in subsection (1) above, no proceedings may be instituted without the leave of the court before the comptroller with respect to that patent under section 61(3), 69, 71 or 72 above.</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP2Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP2No" id="section-74-8">(8)</span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP2Text">It is hereby declared that for the purposes of this Act the validity of a patent is not put in issue merely because</span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-74-8-a"><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-3cbf835b970fb1cf1ee405dba7e0d675" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-3cbf835b970fb1cf1ee405dba7e0d675">F200</a


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>[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-3cbf835b970fb1cf1ee405dba7e0d675" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-3cbf835b970fb1cf1ee405dba7e0d675">F200</a><span class="LegAddition">(a)</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text">the comptroller is considering its validity in order to decide whether to revoke it under section 73 above, <span class="LegChangeDelimiter">[</span><a class="LegCommentaryLink" href="#commentary-key-d4da99ab6201ed41903eace92f0852c8" title="View the commentary text for this item" id="reference-key-d4da99ab6201ed41903eace92f0852c8">F201</a><span class="LegAddition">or</span></span>&#xD;</p><p class="LegClearFix LegP3Container"><span class="LegDS LegLHS LegP3No" id="section-74-8-b"><span class="LegAddition">(b)</span></span><span class="LegDS LegRHS LegP3Text"><span class="LegAddition">its validity is being considered in connection with an opinion under section 74A below or a review of such an opinion.</span><span class="LegChangeDelimiter">]</span></span>&#xD;</p><div class="LegAnnotations"><p class="LegAnnotationsGroupHeading">Textual Amendments</p><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-91b3e3edcd7edaeb555793772d40662f"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-91b3e3edcd7edaeb555793772d40662f" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F197</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 7


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ed Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 reg. 3" rel="cite">reg. 3</a>)</span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-093175beb0804c043b2f7393f78d9d3d"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-093175beb0804c043b2f7393f78d9d3d" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F198</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 74(4)(b) substituted (1.10.2014) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Intellectual Property Act 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18">Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/section/24/1" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 s. 24(1)" rel="cite">s. 24(1)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2014/18/schedule/paragraph/3/2" title="Go to Intellectual Property Act 2014 Sch. para. 3(2)" rel="cite"><strong>Sch. para. 3(2)</strong></a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330">S.I. 2014/2330</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/article/3" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 art. 3" rel="cite">art. 3</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2014/2330/schedule" title="Go to The Intellectual Property Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 Sch." rel=


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ass="LegCommentaryText">Words in s. 74(8) renumbered (1.10.2005) as s. 74(8)(a) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/13/2" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 ss. 13(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 13(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/17/1" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 17(1)" rel="cite">17(1)</a>; <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005" rel="cite" href="/id/uksi/2005/2471">S.I. 2005/2471</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/uksi/2005/2471/article/2/c" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005 art. 2(c)" rel="cite">art. 2(c)</a></span></p></div><div class="LegCommentaryItem" id="commentary-key-d4da99ab6201ed41903eace92f0852c8"><p class="LegCommentaryPara"><span class="LegCommentaryType"><a href="#reference-key-d4da99ab6201ed41903eace92f0852c8" title="Go back to reference for this commentary item">F201</a></span><span class="LegCommentaryText">S. 74(8)(b) and preceding word inserted (1.10.2005) by <a class="LegCitation" title="Patents Act 2004" rel="cite" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16">Patents Act 2004 (c. 16)</a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section/13/2" title="Go to Patents Act 2004 ss. 13(2)" rel="cite"><strong>ss. 13(2)</strong></a>, <a class="LegCitation" href="/id/ukpga/2004/16/section


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