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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2002/schedule/paragraph-63.1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3219",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2002",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/63.1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "63.1",
  "heading": "Scope of this Part and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Part applies to all intellectual property claims including—\n(a) registered intellectual property rights such as—\n(i) patents;\n(ii) registered designs; and\n(iii) registered trade marks; and\n(b) unregistered intellectual property rights such as—\n(i) copyright;\n(ii) design right;\n(iii) the right to prevent passing off; and\n(iv) the other rights set out in the practice direction.\n(2) In this Part—\n(a) “the 1977 Act” means the Patents Act 1977;\n(b) “the 1988 Act” means the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;\n(c) “the 1994 Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1994;\n(d) “the Comptroller” means the Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks;\n(e) “patent” means a patent under the 1977 Act and includes any application for a patent or supplementary protection certificate granted under—\n(i) the Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Rules 1997;\n(ii) the Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) Regulations 1992; and\n(iii) the Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Plant Protection Products) Regulations 1996;\n(f) “Patents Court” means the Patents Court of the High Court constituted as part of the Chancery Division by section 6(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981;\n(g) “Patents County Court” means a county court designated as a Patents County Court under section 287(1) of the 1988 Act;\n(h) “the register” means whichever of the following registers is appropriate—\n(i) patents maintained by the Comptroller under section 32 of the 1977 Act;\n(ii) designs maintained by the registrar under section 17 of the Registered Designs Act 1949;\n(iii) trade marks maintained by the registrar under section 63 of the 1994 Act;\n(iv) Community trade marks maintained by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market under Article 83 of Council Regulation (EC) 40/94; and\n(v) Community designs maintained by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market under Article 72 of Council Regulation (EC) 6/2002; and\n(i) “the registrar” means—\n(i) the registrar of trade marks; or\n(ii) the registrar of registered designs,\nwhichever is appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1994 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/64."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/3091."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/3120."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1981 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1949 c. 88."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "OJ No. L11, 14.1.1994, p 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "OJ No. L3, 5.1.2002, p 1."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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  },
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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