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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2014/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2014/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/578",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in S.I. 2007/3291 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nPatents\nMade 8th March 2014\nLaid before Parliament 12th March 2014\nComing into force 6th April 2014\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 123 of the Patents Act 1977.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c.37; there are amendments to section 123 which are not relevant to these Rules."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/578/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:23:53.201235+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}