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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1990/article-120",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2384",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1990",
  "path": "article/120",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "120",
  "heading": "Fees for international preliminary examination",
  "text": "Where an applicant makes a demand to the Patent Office, as International Preliminary Examining Authority, for international preliminary examination under Article 31 of the said Treaty, he shall—\n(a) in accordance with rule 58 of those Regulations, pay the appropriate prescribed preliminary examination fee;\n(b) in accordance with rule 57 of those Regulations, pay the handling fee therein referred to; and\n(c) upon request by the Patent Office, pay to it an amount which is the equivalent in sterling of the search fee referred to in rule 118(3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2384/article/120",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:56:36.113772+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."
}