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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-compulsory-licensing-and-supplementary-protection-certificates-regulations-2007/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3293",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Compulsory Licensing and Supplementary Protection Certificates) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-compulsory-licensing-and-supplementary-protection-certificates-regulations-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PATENTS\nMade 19th November 2007\nLaid before Parliament 22nd November 2007\nComing into force 17th December 2007\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to intellectual property (including both registered and unregistered rights).\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations under the powers conferred by that section as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in that section and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for certain references to Community instruments to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "SI 2006/608."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3293/introduction",
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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."
}