{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1995/article-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1995/article-53.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2093",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1995",
  "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 send to the comptroller written notice thereof 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/1995/2093/article/53",
    "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."
}