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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracting-out-functions-in-relation-to-applications-for-patents-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0110429672",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting Out (Functions in Relation to Applications for Patents) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracting-out-functions-in-relation-to-applications-for-patents-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n(a) “the comptroller” means the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks;\n(b) “the Patents Act” means the Patents Act 1977; and\n(c) “the Patents Rules” means the Patents Rules 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2093, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2002/0110429672/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:25:47.428006+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."
}