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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004/schedule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004/schedule-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/16",
  "legislation_title": "Patents Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Repeals",
  "text": "Short title and chapter\nExtent of repeal\nPatents Act 1977 (c. 37)\nSection 2(6).\nIn section 4—\n(a)in subsection (1), the words “Subject to subsection (2) below”;\n(b)subsections (2) and (3).\nIn section 41(4) and (5), the words “a patent for”.\nSection 53(1).\nSection 60(4).\nIn section 72—\n(a)in subsection (1), the words “on the application of any person”;\n(b)in subsection (4), the words “under section 75 below”.\nIn section 81(2), paragraph (a) and the word “that” preceding it.\nSections 86 and 87.\nSection 89(4).\nIn section 95(1), the words “the Community Patent Convention”.\nIn section 103(2), in the definition of “the relevant conventions”, the words “the Community Patent Convention”.\nIn section 105(2), in the definition of “the relevant conventions”, the words “the Community Patent Convention”.\nIn section 106, in the heading, the words “under s. 40”.\nIn section 121, the words “the Community Patent Convention”.\nIn section 123, subsections (4) and (5).\nIn section 130(1)—\n(a)the definition of “Community patent” and the word “and” preceding it;\n(b)in the definition of “relevant convention court”, the words “the Community Patent Convention”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 in force at 22.9.2004 for specified purposes by S.I. 2004/2177, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 in force at 1.1.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2004/3205, art. 2(f) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 3 in force at 1.10.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/2471, art. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 3 in force at 13.12.2007 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2007/3396, art. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/16/schedule/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:09.517783+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."
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