SCHEDULES

Section 127.

SCHEDULE 3 U.K. REPEALS OF PROVISIONS OF 1949 ACT

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of ss. 127(5), 132(6),(7); Sch. 1 para. 2(1),(2), 5, 7(1)(2), 8; Sch. 3; Sch. 5 paras 4, 5(1), (2), (3), 6; Sch. 6 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

1 U.K. Subject to the provisions of Schedule 4 below, the provisions of the 1949 Act referred to in paragraph 2 below (which have no counterpart in the new law of patents established by this Act in relation to future patents and applications) shall cease to have effect.

2 U.K. The provisions are:—

(a) section 14 (opposition to grant of patent) ;

(b) section 32(3) (revocation for refusal to comply with Crown request to use invention) ;

(c) section 41 (inventions relating to food or medicine, etc.) ;

(d) section 42 (comptroller’s power to revoke patent after expiry of two years from grant of compulsory licence);

(e) section 71 (extension of time for certain convention applications) ;

(f) section 72 (protection of inventions communicated under international agreements).