• Decision: Design hearing decision: O/0614/24

    Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 28 June 2024. Get emails about this page Documents Design Decision O/0614/24 PDF, 1.12 MB, 27 pages Details Litigants Lynn Reddall v Tracy Kirsopp Hearing Officer Clare Boucher Note Every effort is made to ensure design hearing decisions have been accurately recorded,... Continue reading

     
  • Notice: Patent Journal special notices: 7065

    Publication date 16 October 2024. Get emails about this page Documents Patent Journal special notices: 7065, 16 October 2024 RTF, 117 KB Details These are notices which appear for a limited number of weeks. They include Intellectual Property policy announcements and recent additions to the British Library. Updates to this... Continue reading

     
  • Schedule 5 (section 132): Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (c.44).

    Schedule 5 (section 132): Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (c.44). Consequential amendments; 1. [repealed] 2. [repealed] 3. In sections 42 of the Registered Designs Act 1949, for “the Patents Act 1949” there shall be substituted, “the Patents Act 1977”. 4. In subsection (4) of section 4 of the Defence Contracts Act... Continue reading

     
  • Section 130: Interpretation

    Section 130: Interpretation Supplemental. (1) In this Act, except so far as the context otherwise requires; “application fee” means the fee prescribed for the purposes of section 14(1A) above; “application for a European patent (UK)” and (subject to subsection (4A) below) “international application for a patent (UK)” each mean an... Continue reading

     
  • Schedule 4 (section 127): Transitional provisions

    Schedule 4 (section 127): Transitional provisions Transitional provisions. General In so far as any instrument made or other thing done under any provision of the 1949 Act which is repealed by virtue of this Act could have been made or done under a corresponding provision of this Act, it shall... Continue reading

     
  • Section 107: Costs and expenses in proceedings before the comptroller

    Section 107: Costs and expenses in proceedings before the comptroller Legal Proceedings. (1) The comptroller may, in proceedings before him under this Act, by order award to any party such costs or, in Scotland, such expenses as he may consider reasonable and direct how and by what parties they are... Continue reading

     
  • Section 32: Register of patents, etc.

    Section 32: Register of patents, etc. Property in patents and applications, and registration. (1) The comptroller shall maintain the register of patents, which shall comply with rules made by virtue of this section and shall be kept in accordance with such rules. (2) Without prejudice to any other provision of... Continue reading

     
  • Section 106: Costs and expenses in proceedings before the Court

    Section 106: Costs and expenses in proceedings before the Court Legal Proceedings. (1) In proceedings to which this section applies, the court, in determining whether to award costs or expenses to any party and what costs or expenses to award, shall have regard to all the relevant circumstances, including the... Continue reading

     
  • Section 1: Patentability

    Section 1: Patentability Sections (1.01 – 1.47) last updated: October 2024. Section 1: Patentable inventions 1.01 The Patents Act 1977 sets out for the first time to codify what is meant by a patentable invention. Previous legislation up to and including the 1949 Act had merely repeated the stipulation, originally... Continue reading

     
  • Notice: Patent Journal special notices: 7062

    Publication date 25 September 2024. Get emails about this page Documents Patent Journal special notices: 7062, 25 September 2024 RTF, 117 KB Details These are notices which appear for a limited number of weeks. They include Intellectual Property policy announcements and recent additions to the British Library. Updates to this... Continue reading