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These Rules substitute in the Patents Rules 1982 a new rule 52 for the present rules 52 and 93(3). The new rule 52 relates to certificates and copies supplied by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks. The amendments are consequential on the coming into force on 1st January 1989 of the remaining provisions of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986. Patents Forms Nos. 23/77 and 24/77 are revised.

These Rules also introduce a new rule 67A into the 1982 Rules which relates to certain patents which are subject to licences of right under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Patents Act 1977. The new rule is consequential on the insertion of a new paragraph 4A in the said Schedule by section 293 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. New Patents Form No. 58/77 is introduced.