Part 3Trading income

Chapter 5Trade profits: rules allowing deductions

Expenses connected with patents, designs and trade marks

89Expenses connected with patents

In calculating the profits of a trade, a deduction is allowed for expenses incurred—

(a)

in obtaining for the purposes of the trade the grant of a patent or the extension of a patent's term, or

(b)

in connection with a rejected or abandoned application for a patent made for the purposes of the trade.