{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1998/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1998/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1898",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1998",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Applications for leave to amend patent specification",
  "text": "After Order 104, rule 3(2) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—\n“(2A) Not less than 2 days before the day fixed for the hearing of the motion,\n(a) the applicant,\n(b) the comptroller,\n(c) the parties to the proceedings and\n(d) any person who has given notice of his intention to oppose the amendment,\nshall serve on each other and file a statement of the directions which that person seeks for the further conduct of the proceedings.\n(2B) Any person who fails to serve a statement under paragraph (2A) shall take no further part in the proceedings without the leave of the Court and, unless the Court otherwise directs, shall not be liable for the costs thereof.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1898/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:58.683236+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."
}