Article 2

Subsections (1) to (3) of section 47 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 apply, subject to the modifications set out in article 3 below, to material made open to public inspection by–

(a)

the European Patent Office under the Convention on the Grant of European Patents^f1; and

(b)

the World Intellectual Property Organisation under the Patent Co-operation Treaty^f2;

as they apply in relation to material open to public inspection pursuant to a statutory requirement or to a statutory register.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Cmnd. 8510.
f2: Cmnd. 7340.