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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-patent-agents-rules-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1457",
  "legislation_title": "The Register of Patent Agents Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-patent-agents-rules-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules revoke and replace with modifications the Register of Patent Agents Rules 1978 as amended. They regulate the registration of persons who act as agents for others for the purpose of applying for or obtaining patents in the United Kingdom or elsewhere. Those on the register kept under the Register of Patent Agents Rules 1978 (the register to be kept under these Rules) on the coming into force of these Rules are treated as registered patent agents for the purposes of these Rules and section 276 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (persons entitled to describe themselves as patent agents).\nRules 8, 9 and 10 make provision for qualifying examinations and qualifications for, and entitlement to, registration. Rule 8 empowers the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents to make regulations for the qualifying examinations appropriate for registration and to have the entire management and control of such examinations.\nRules 14 to 17 relate to proceedings by the Secretary of State when inquiring into the misconduct of a person applying for registration or of a registered patent agent and for the erasure from the register of the name of a person on the ground of misconduct. A person whose name has been erased from the register may apply to the Secretary of State for its restoration (rule 18), and a person aggrieved by a decision of the Institute or the Registrar under these Rules may appeal to the Comptroller (rule 19).\nRule 20 confers on the Institute power to make regulations with respect to the payment of examination, registration and annual practice fees. The Institute is required to secure, as far as practicable, that the income from examinations fees does not exceed the expenditure incurred in administering the examinations, taking one year with another (rule 20(2)).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1457/note",
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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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