http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1989/1130

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1130/article/6/1990-08-13

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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1990-08-13

These Rules prescribe the forms, fees and the procedure to be followed in connection with proceedings before the Comptroller in relation to–disputes on the subsistence or term of design right or the identity of the person in whom the right first vested;the settlement of the terms of a licence which is made available in the public interest or as of right in the last five years of design right or of copyright in respect of a design recorded or embodied in a design document or model made before 1st August 1989;the settlement of the terms of a licence where the design right or copyright owner is unknown and for the variation of those terms if and when his identity is discovered; andthe adjustment of the terms of a licence granted before 1st August 1989 in respect of a design recorded or embodied in a design document or model before that date.

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

rule. 4

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999

rule. 3

rule. 1(2)

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

rule. 5(1)(2)

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999

rule. 4(a)

rule. 1(2)

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999

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rule. 1(2)

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Legal Services Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009

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The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Legal Services Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009

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The Legal Services Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009

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rule 6(4)(b)

The Legal Services Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009

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The Legal Services Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009

art. 8(c)(i)

art. 2(1)

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rule 6(4)(c)

The Legal Services Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009

art. 8(c)(ii)

art. 2(1)

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rule 6(4)(c)

The Legal Services Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009

art. 8(c)(iii)

art. 2(1)

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rule 6(4)(c)

The Legal Services Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009

art. 8(c)(iv)

art. 2(1)

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Patents, Trade Marks and Designs (Address for Service) Rules 2009

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rule 1

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rule 18A

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999

rule 5

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

rule 23(1A)

The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Sch. 8

para. 14

reg. 1

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

rule 23(1A)

The Patents, Trade Marks and Designs (Address For Service and Time Limits, etc) Rules 2006

rule 3(3)

rule 1

The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989

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The Patents, Trade Marks and Designs (Address for Service) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Rules 2020

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1

[Representation and rights of audience] Any party to the proceedings may appear in person or be represented by counsel or a solicitor (of any part of the United Kingdom) or, subject to paragraph (4) below, a patent agent or any other person whom he desires to represent him.

2

Anything required or authorised by these Rules to be done by or in relation to any person may be done by or in relation to his agent.

3

Where after a person has become a party to the proceedings he appoints an agent for the first time or appoints an agent in substitution for another, the newly appointed agent shall give written notice of his appointment to the Comptroller and to every other party to the proceedings.

4

The Comptroller may refuse to recognise as such an agent in respect of any proceedings before him–

a

a person who has been convicted of an offence under section 88 of the Patents Act 19493 or section 114 of the Patents Act 19774F1or section 276 of the Act;

b

any individual whose name has been erased from and not restored to, or who is suspended from, the register of patent agents (kept in pursuance of rules made under F2section 275 of the Act) on the ground of misconduct;

c

a person who is found by the Secretary of State to have been guilty of such conduct as would, in the case of an individual registered in the register of patent agents, render him liable to have his name erased from the register on the ground of misconduct;

d

a partnership or body corporate of which one of the partners or directors is a person whom the Comptroller could refuse to recognise under sub-paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) above.