{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007/article-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007/article-66.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3291",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/66",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Beginning of national phase",
  "text": "(1) The prescribed period for the purposes of section 89A(3)(a) and (5)(a) is thirty one months beginning immediately after—\n(a) where there is no declared priority date, the date of filing of the application;\n(b) where there is a declared priority date, that date.\n(2) But where the applicant has been notified under rule 69(5), the period prescribed for the purposes of section 89A(3)(a) and (5)(a) is three months beginning immediately after the date of the notification.\n(3) Where an international application for a patent (UK) has begun the national phase, a request for permission to make a late declaration may be made under section 5(2B) before the end of the period of one month beginning immediately after the date the national phase of the application begins.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 66(1) substituted (1.10.2011) by The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/2052), rules 1, 3, Sch. (with rule 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 66(2) substituted (1.10.2011) by The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/2052), rules 1, 3, Sch. (with rule 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 66(3) substituted (1.10.2011) by The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/2052), rules 1, 3, Sch. (with rule 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3291/article/66",
    "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."
}