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  "title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 1992",
  "long_title": "These Rules make the following amendments of substance to the Patents Rules 1990 (S.I. 1990/2384):to give effect to provisions of the Patent Cooperation Treaty which—modify provisions permitting two or more inventions to be treated as linked to form a single inventive concept (rule 3);permit an extension of the time-limit for the provision of translations of an application as originally filed and any amendment to it (rule 10);provide the time-limits applicable for payment of certain designation fees (rule 14);introduce a requirement for an additional late payment fee in respect of late payment of transmittal, basic, designation and search fees (rule 14);to make changes in certain circumstances to the period within which an application for a patent is to comply with the Act (rule 5 and rule 9);to shorten the period within which objections may be made to a request that a hearing be held in Scotland (rule 12);to modify the application of the rule on alteration of time-limits to certain requests for extensions of time (rule 13);to make provision for notification to the International Bureau of the intention to limit availability of a micro-organism to an expert to be treated as notification to the comptroller for the same purpose (rule 15).",
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