Article 57 Request under section 38(3)

Where an order is made under section 37 that a patent shall be transferred to one or more persons none of whom was an old proprietor of it or that a person other than an old proprietor may make a new application for a patent, a request under section 38(3) for the grant of a licence to continue working or, as the case may be, to work the invention shall, in the case of any of the old proprietors, be made within two months, and in the case of a licensee, four months, of his being notified by the comptroller of the making of the order.

Where such an order is made, the comptroller shall notify the old proprietor or proprietors, and their licensees of whom he is aware, of the making of the order.