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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2004/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2004/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2358",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2004",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies to an application for a patent to which article 20, 21 or 22 of the Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 applies.\n(2) Rules 3, 5 to 9 of these Rules and paragraphs 4, 6, 7 and 9 of Schedule 2 to these Rules shall not apply in respect of any application to which this rule applies.\n(3) Where this rule applies to an application, amended rule 110 of the Patents Rules 1995 applies to that application with the following modification—\n(a) any reference to Part 1 of Schedule 4A shall be construed as a reference to the rules listed in paragraph (2) of unamended rule 110;\n(b) any reference to Part 2 of Schedule 4A shall be construed as a reference to the rules listed in paragraph (2A) of unamended rule 110;\n(c) any reference to Part 3 of Schedule 4A shall be construed as a reference to the rules listed in paragraph (3) of unamended rule 110;\n(d) any reference to Part 4 of Schedule 4A shall be construed as a reference to the following rules— 15(1), 24, 25, 26 (so far as it relates to section 15(1)), 33, 34, 81(3), 82 (3), 83(1), 85(1), (2)(a), (5A), (7) and (7A).\nand any reference in unamended rule 110 or in sub-paragraph (d) to a rule shall be construed as a reference to that rule as it applies to the application.\n(4) In paragraph (3)—\n“amended rule 110” means rule 110 of the Patents Rules 1995 in the form it is immediately after these Rules have come into force;\n“unamended rule 110” means rule 110 of the Patents Rules 1995 in the form it was immediately prior to these Rules coming into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2358/article/20",
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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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