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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patent-agents-non-recognition-of-certain-agents-by-comptroller-rules-1990/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1454",
  "legislation_title": "The Patent Agents (Non-recognition of Certain Agents by Comptroller) Rules 1990",
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  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Comptroller is hereby authorised to refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under the Patents Act 1949, the Registered Designs Act 1949or the Patents Act 1977—\n(a) a person who has been convicted of an offence under section 88 of the Patents Act 1949, section 114 of the Patents Act 1977 or section 276 of the Act;\n(b) an individual whose name has been erased from and not restored to the register on the ground of misconduct;\n(c) a person who is found by the Secretary of State to have been guilty of such conduct as would, in the case of an individual registered in the register, render him liable to have his name erased from the register on the ground of misconduct;\n(d) a partnership or body corporate of which one of the partners or directors is a person whom the Comptroller could refuse to recognise under paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c. 87."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1949 c. 88; section 32 thereof (power to make rules for the registrar to refuse to recognise certain agents) is repealed by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 272 and Schedule 3, paragraph 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1977 c. 37; section 115 thereof (power of Comptroller to deal with certain agents) is repealed by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 303(2) and Schedule 8."
    }
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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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