Article 2

For rule 52 of the Patents Rules 1982^f1 there shall be substituted the following—

“Certificates and copies supplied by comptroller

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(1)

Upon request made on Patents Form No. 24/77 and payment of the appropriate fee, but subject to paragraph (3) below, the comptroller shall supply—

(a)

a certified copy or certified extract falling within section 32(11);

(b)

a copy of an entry in or an extract from the register or a copy of or an extract from anything referred to in section 32(11)(b), certified by the impression of a rubber stamp;

(c)

a certificate for the purposes of section 32(10).

(2)

Upon request made on Patents Form No. 23/77 and payment of the appropriate fee, but subject to paragraph (3) below, the comptroller shall supply an uncertified copy of an entry in or an uncertified extract from the register or an uncertified copy of or an uncertified extract from anything referred to in section 32(11)(b).

(3)

The restrictions on making documents available for inspection contained in rule 93(5) shall apply equally to the supply by the comptroller under this rule of copies of or extracts from such documents or requests for information as are referred to in rule 93(5) and nothing in this rule shall be construed as imposing upon the comptroller the duty of supplying copies of or extracts from any documents filed with or sent to or by the Patent Office before 1st June 1978.”.

Paragraph (3) of rule 93 of the Patents Rules 1982 shall be omitted.

For subparagraph (e) of rule 93(5) of the Patents Rules 1982 there shall be substituted the following—

“(e)

that no request made under rule 48, 49(2), 52(2), 92 or this rule shall be open to inspection; and”.

There shall be substituted for Patents Forms Nos. 23/77 and 24/77 as set out in Schedule 2 to the Patents Rules 1982 the forms so numbered set out in Schedule 1 hereto.