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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1995/article-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1995/article-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2093",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1995",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Period for publication of application",
  "text": "The period prescribed for the purposes of section 16 shall be the period of eighteen months calculated from the declared priority date or, where there is no declared priority date, the date of filing the application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2496",
      "affecting_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2005"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2093/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:03:56.885600+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."
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