{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2005/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2005/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2496",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Publication of names and addresses of inventors",
  "text": "(1) In rule 44(2)—\n(a) for the words “Upon such publication, the comptroller” there shall be substituted “Subject to paragraph (2A), upon such publication the comptroller”; and\n(b) the words from “Provided” to the end of the paragraph shall be omitted.\n(2) After rule 44(2) there shall be inserted—\n“(2A) Where a person’s application under rule 15A(1)(a) or (b) has been accepted by the comptroller, the comptroller may omit from the register his name and address (or, as the case may be, his address) as that of the person believed to be the inventor.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 44(2) was amended by SI 1999/3197."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2496/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:52.871467+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}