{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-63.11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-63.11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/63.11",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "63.11",
  "heading": "Court’s determination of question or application",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where the Comptroller—\n(a) declines to deal with a question under section 8(7), 12(2), 37(8) or 61(5) of the 1977 Act;\n(b) declines to deal with an application under section 40(5) of the 1977 Act; or\n(c) certifies under section 72(7)(b) of the 1977 Act that the court should determine the question whether a patent should be revoked.\n(2) Any person seeking the court’s determination of that question or application must start a claim for that purpose within 14 days of receiving notification of the Comptroller’s decision.\n(3) A person who fails to start a claim within the time prescribed by rule 63.11(2) will be deemed to have abandoned the reference or application.\n(4) A party may apply to the Comptroller or the court to extend the period for starting a claim prescribed by rule 63.11(2) even where the application is made after expiration of that period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 63 substituted (1.10.2009) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/2092), rule 1(2), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/63.11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}