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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1990/article-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1990/article-53.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2384",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1990",
  "path": "article/53",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Order or direction by court",
  "text": "Where any order or direction has been made or given by the court—\n(a) transferring a patent or application or any right in or under it to any person;\n(b) that an application should proceed in the name of any person;\n(c) allowing the proprietor of a patent to amend the specification; or\n(d) revoking a patent;\nthe person in whose favour the order is made or the direction is given—\n(i) shall file Patents Form 25/77 accompanied by an office copy of the order or direction; and\n(ii) if the comptroller so requires and before a time fixed by him, shall file a specification as amended (prepared in accordance with rules 16, 18 and 20),\nand thereupon the specification shall be amended or the register rectified or altered, as the case may require.",
  "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/53",
    "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."
}