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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-copyright-designs-and-patents-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/380",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Copyright, Designs and Patents) 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-copyright-designs-and-patents-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Act of Sederunt)\nThis Act of Sederunt gives effect to certain applications to the sheriff court under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and to the Trade Marks Act 1938 as amended by the 1988 Act by making provision for regulating–\n(a) the manner in which certain applications may be made to the sheriff;\n(b) the service of notice on interested parties in specified applications; and\n(c) the manner in which leave of the court to allow certain actions for infringement to proceed may be obtained.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/380/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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