{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007/article-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007/article-65.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3291",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/65",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Filing of international applications at the Patent Office",
  "text": "(1) An international application for a patent filed at the Patent Office as a competent receiving Office under the Patent Co-operation Treaty must be filed in English or Welsh.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Where the Patent Office was acting on behalf of the International Bureau as the receiving Office, the comptroller shall only transmit an international application for a patent filed at the Patent Office to the International Bureau and the International Searching Authority after the appropriate fee has been paid.\n(4) A request under the Treaty for a certified copy of an international application for a patent (including any corrections to that application) filed at the Patent Office as the competent receiving Office must be filed on Patents Form 23.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 65(1) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Patents (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/892), rules 1(2), 11(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 65(2) omitted (1.10.2016) by virtue of The Patents (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/892), rules 1(2), 11(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3291/article/65",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:40:58.093437+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}