{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004-commencement-no-2-and-consequential-etc-and-transitional-provisions-order-2004/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004-commencement-no-2-and-consequential-etc-and-transitional-provisions-order-2004/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3205",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004-commencement-no-2-and-consequential-etc-and-transitional-provisions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Consequential, incidental and supplementary provisions",
  "text": "For rule 13 there is substituted—\n“Reference to the comptroller under section 11(5)\n13. (1) A reference under section 11(5) shall be made on Patents Form 2/77 and shall be accompanied by a copy and by a statement in duplicate setting out fully—\n(a) the question referred;\n(b) the facts upon which the person making the reference relies; and\n(c) the period or terms of the licence which he is prepared to accept or grant.\n(2) The comptroller shall send, except to the person who made the reference, a copy of the reference and statement to—\n(a) every person in whose name the application is to proceed or, as the case may be, who makes the new application; and\n(b) every person claiming to be entitled to be granted a licence,\nand any such person who receives a copy of the reference and statement may, before the end of the period of six weeks starting on the date the copies were sent to him, file a counter-statement (which must be in duplicate) setting out fully his grounds of objection.\n(3) The comptroller shall send a copy of the counter-statement to the person who made the reference.\n(4) The comptroller may give such directions as he thinks fit with regard to the subsequent procedure.\n(5) In this rule, a reference to section 11 includes a reference to that section as applied by section 12(5).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3205/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:14:12.385219+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."
}