{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-convention-countries-order-2006/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-convention-countries-order-2006/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/315",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-convention-countries-order-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, pursuant to section 90(1) of the Patents Act 1977 (c. 37), declares the countries specified in the Schedule to be convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977. Section 5 of that Act affords certain rights of priority to applicants for patents, and this Order provides those rights of priority to applications filed in the countries specified in this Order. In this Order the term “country” includes colonies, protectorates and territories by reason of section 90(3) of that Act.\nThe majority of the countries specified in the Order have acceded to the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (“the Paris Convention”) (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cmnd. 4431) or the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation (including the Agreement on Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) (Cm. 3044-6, 3080, 3263-4, 3268-9, 3271, 3275-7 and 3282).\nThis Order revokes the Patents (Convention Countries) Order 2004 (SI 2004/3335) (“the 2004 Order”). This Order provides a consolidated list of countries that are convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977 and the only substantive change from the 2004 Order is the addition of the Comoros to the Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/315/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:06.493196+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."
}