{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007/article-103",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007/article-103.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3291",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/103",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "103",
  "heading": "Address for service",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of any proceeding under the Act or these Rules, an address for service must be furnished by—\n(a) an applicant for the grant of a patent;\n(b) a person who makes any other application, reference or request or gives any notice of opposition under the Act; and\n(c) any person opposing such an application, reference, request or notice.\n(2) The proprietor of a patent, or any person who has registered any right in or under a patent or application, may furnish an address for service by notifying the comptroller.\n(3) Where a person has furnished an address for service under paragraph (1) or (2), he may substitute a new address for service by notifying the comptroller.\n(4) An address for service furnished under this Rule shall be an address in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar or the Channel Islands.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 103(4) substituted for rule 103(4)(5) (6.4.2009) by The Patents, Trade Marks and Designs (Address for Service) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/546), rules 1, 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 103(4) substituted (1.1.2021) by The Patents, Trade Marks and Designs (Address for Service) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/1317), rules 1(1), 2 (with rules 6-8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3291/article/103",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:40:58.093437+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."
}