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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-fees-rules-2007/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-fees-rules-2007/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3292",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Fees) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-fees-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Supplementary protection certificates",
  "text": "(1) The prescribed fee payable for a supplementary protection certificate to take effect is set in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) Where the certificate expires during the period of one year beginning with—\n(a) the start date, the fee is £800;\n(b) the first anniversary of the start date, the fee is £1,740;\n(c) the second anniversary of the start date, the fee is £2,810;\n(d) the third anniversary of the start date, the fee is £4,010; or\n(e) the fourth anniversary of the start date, the fee is £5,340.\n(3) The period in paragraph (2) shall be calculated without reference to any extension of the duration of a supplementary protection certificate under Article 13(3) of the Medicinal Products Regulation .\n(4) ... The additional fee prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 4A to the Act (supplementary protection certificates) shall be half the prescribed fee.\n(5) In this rule “start date” is the first day following the day on which the basic patent expires.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sum in rule 6(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2026) by The Intellectual Property Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/183), rules 1(1), 12(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in rule 6(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2026) by The Intellectual Property Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/183), rules 1(1), 12(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sum in rule 6(2)(c) substituted (1.4.2026) by The Intellectual Property Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/183), rules 1(1), 12(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sum in rule 6(2)(d) substituted (1.4.2026) by The Intellectual Property Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/183), rules 1(1), 12(a)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sum in rule 6(2)(e) substituted (1.4.2026) by The Intellectual Property Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/183), rules 1(1), 12(a)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 6(4) omitted (1.4.2026) by virtue of The Intellectual Property Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/183), rules 1(1), 12(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Rule 6(6) omitted (1.4.2026) by virtue of The Intellectual Property Fees (Miscellaneous Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/183), rules 1(1), 12(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 (OJ No L 182, 2.7.92, p1) as amended by Regulation (EC) 1901/2006 (OJ No L 378, 27.12.2006, p1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3292/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:40:55.199099+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."
}