{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977/section-128B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977/section-128B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/37",
  "legislation_title": "Patents Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977",
  "path": "section/128B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "128B",
  "heading": "Supplementary protection certificates",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 4A contains provision about the application of this Act in relation to supplementary protection certificates and other provision about such certificates.\n(2) In this Act a “supplementary protection certificate” means a certificate issued under—\n(a) Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6th May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products, or\n(b) Regulation (EC) No 1610/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 128A, 128B inserted (17.12.2007) by The Patents (Compulsory Licensing and Supplementary Protection Certificates) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3293), regs. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 128B(2)(a) substituted (1.10.2014) by The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2411), regs. 1(2), 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/37/section/128B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:17.133485+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."
}