{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1949/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1949/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/87",
  "legislation_title": "Patents Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1949",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Extension on ground of war loss of licensee.",
  "text": "Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing section, an order for the extension of the term of a patent may be made under that section on the application of a person holding a licence from the patentee giving to the licensee, or to the licensee and persons authorised by him, to the exclusion of all other persons, permission to make, use, exercise and vend the invention, if the court or comptroller is satisfied that the licensee as such has suffered any such loss or damage as is mentioned in subsection (1) of that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 25 restricted by Patents Act 1977 (c. 37), Sch. 1 para. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/87/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:19:59.574435+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."
}