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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3291",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-2007",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Introductory",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“authorisation certificate” means a certificate issued by the comptroller authorising a depositary institution to make available a sample of biological material;\n“Budapest Treaty” means the Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the purposes of Patent Procedure signed at Budapest on 28thApril 1977, as amended on 26th September 1980, and includes references to the regulations made under that Treaty;\n“depositary institution” means an institution which—\n(a)carries out the functions of receiving, accepting and storing biological material and the furnishing of samples of such biological material (whether generally or of a specific type); and\n(b)conducts its affairs, in so far as they relate to the carrying out of those functions, in an objective and impartial manner;\n“expert” means independent expert;\n“first requirement” means the first requirement in paragraph 3;\n“international depositary authority” means a depositary institution which has acquired the status of international depositary authority as provided in the Budapest Treaty; and\n“second requirement” means the second requirement in paragraph 3.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3291/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:40:58.093437+00:00"
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  "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."
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