{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1987/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1987/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/288",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1987",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous",
  "text": "For rule 100 of the Patents Rules 1982 there shall be substituted the following—\n“100 (1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, any document filed in any proceedings before the comptroller may, if he thinks fit, be amended, and any irregularity in procedure in or before the Patent Office may be rectified, on such terms as he may direct.\n(2) Where the irregularity in procedure consists of a failure to comply with any limitation as to times or periods specified in the Act or the 1949 Act or prescribed in these Rules or the Patents Rules 1968, as they continue to apply, the comptroller may direct that the time or period in question shall be altered if the irregularity is attributable wholly or in part to an error, default or omission on the part of the Patent Office, but not otherwise.\n(3) Paragraph (2) above is without prejudice to the comptroller’s power to extend any times or periods under rule 110 below.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1968/1389, amended by S.I. 1970/955, 1971/1917, 1973/66, 1975/891, 1021 and 1262 and revoked with savings by S.I. 1978/216."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/288/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:32:02.781254+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."
}