{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1995/article-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1995/article-90.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2093",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1995",
  "path": "article/90",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Agents",
  "text": "(1) Unless the comptroller otherwise directs in any particular case—\n(a) all attendances upon him may be made by or through an agent; and\n(b) every notice, application or other document filed under the Act may be signed by an agent.\n(2) Where after a person has become a party to proceedings before the comptroller he appoints—\n(a) an agent for the first time, the newly appointed agent shall file Patents Form 51/77 on or before the first occasion when he acts as agent; or\n(b) one agent in substitution for another, the newly appointed agent shall file in duplicate Patents Form 51/77 on or before the first occasion when he acts as agent and the comptroller shall send one copy of the form to the previously appointed agent.",
  "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/90",
    "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."
}