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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1992/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1992/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1142",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules make the following amendments of substance to the Patents Rules 1990 (S.I. 1990/2384):\n(a) to give effect to provisions of the Patent Cooperation Treaty which—\n(i) modify provisions permitting two or more inventions to be treated as linked to form a single inventive concept (rule 3);\n(ii) 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);\n(iii) provide the time-limits applicable for payment of certain designation fees (rule 14);\n(iv) introduce a requirement for an additional late payment fee in respect of late payment of transmittal, basic, designation and search fees (rule 14);\n(b) 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);\n(c) to shorten the period within which objections may be made to a request that a hearing be held in Scotland (rule 12);\n(d) to modify the application of the rule on alteration of time-limits to certain requests for extensions of time (rule 13);\n(e) 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1142/note",
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  "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."
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