{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-2016/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-2016/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/892",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-2016",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "International applications",
  "text": "After rule 66 insert—\n“Amendment of international application before grant\n66A. (1) This rule applies to an international application for a patent (UK) which has begun the national phase of the application.\n(2) The period within which an applicant may amend his application under section 19(1) is as follows.\n(3) Where during the international phase of the application, the International Searching Authority has sent to the applicant the International Search Report relating to the invention, the period within which the applicant may amend his application is the period beginning with the date on which the national phase of the application begins and ending with the date on which the comptroller sends the applicant the first substantive examination report.\n(4) Where during the international phase of the application, the International Searching Authority has not sent to the applicant the International Search Report relating to the invention, the period during which the applicant may amend his application is the first to commence of—\n(a) the period prescribed by rule 31(3); and\n(b) the period beginning with the date on which the International Searching Authority sends the International Search Report to the applicant and ending with the date on which the comptroller sends the applicant the first substantive examination report.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 130(1) of the Patents Act 1977 for the definition of “international application for a patent (UK)”; section 130(1) was amended by the Patents Act 2004, Schedule 1, paragraphs 1, 9(1) and (2)(a)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 89A(3) of the Patents Act 1977 for the meaning of when “the national phase of the application begins” (section 89A was substituted by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Schedule 5, paragraph 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 89A(2) of the Patents Act 1977 for the meaning of “the international phase of the application” (section 89A was substituted by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Schedule 5, paragraph 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See rule 64 of the Patents Rules 2007 for the definition of “International Searching Authority”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See rule 64 of the Patents Rules 2007 for the definition of “International Search Report”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/892/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:18.450275+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."
}