{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-1975/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-1975/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/891",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-1975",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Patents Rules 1968, as amended, shall have effect subject to the following further amendments:—\n(a) to Rule 58 there shall be added the words “after the acceptance of a complete specification”;\n(b) in Rule 64,\n(i) before the words “before the expiration of that year” there shall be inserted the words “in the three months”; and\n(ii) for the words “at any time before the expiration of three months from the date of sealing the patent” there shall be substituted the words “not more than three months before the expiration of the fourth or relevant succeeding year but before the expiration of three months from the date of sealing the patent”; and\n(c) Rule 65 shall be deleted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1968 II, p. 3958)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The amendments are not relevant to the subject matter of this instrument."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/891/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:08:43.323641+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."
}