{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-3-1978/article-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1978/579",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 3) 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-3-1978",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Order 59 shall be amended as follows:—\n(a) In rule 17(1), the words from “made” to the end shall be omitted.\n(b) For rule 18 there shall be substituted the following rule:—\n“Appeal from Patents Court on appeal from Comptroller\n18 In the case of an appeal to the Court of Appeal from a decision of the Patents Court on an appeal from a decision of the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks the notice of appeal must be served on the Comptroller-General as well as on the party or parties required to be served under rule 3.”\n(2) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above shall apply in relation to any appeal to the Court of Appeal which, pursuant to paragraph 12 or 13 of Schedule 4 to the Patents Act 1977, is to be prosecuted under the old law as defined by paragraph 16 of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/579/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:36:35.335330+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."
}