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Article 4 Amendment of the Patents Rules 1995

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Rule 15 (procedure where applicant is not the inventor or sole inventor) shall be amended as follows.

(1)

For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—

“(1)

Subject to rules 26, 81(3), 82(3), 85(7) and 85(7A)(a), the period prescribed for the purposes of section 13(2) shall be—

(a)

where there is no declared priority date, the period of sixteen months starting on the date of filing the application;

(b)

where there is a declared priority date, the period of sixteen months starting on that date.

(1A)

A statement filed under section 13(2) shall be made on Patents Form 7/77.”.

(2)

Paragraphs (3) and (4) shall be omitted.