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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/29",
  "legislation_title": "Patents and Designs Act 1907",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to Patents for Inventions and the Registration of Designs and certain enactments relating to Trade Marks.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Act: by 1994 c. 26, s. 106(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)(4); S.I. 1994/2550, art. 2 it is provided (retrospectively) that the repeal of this Act, except certain provisions, shall be deemed not to have extended to the long title, date of enactment or enacting words or to so much of section 99 as provides the Act with its short title"
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      "text": "Act amended by Patents, Designs, Copyright and Trade Marks (Emergency) Act 1939 (c. 107), s. 6"
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