The Patents Rules 1995

Procedure where section 81(2)(b)(ii) applies

82.—(1) Where section 81(2)(b)(ii) applies, the period within which a request may be transmitted to the comptroller shall be the twenty months calculated from the declared priority date or, where there is no declared priority date, the date of filing of the application for the European patent (UK).

(2) Upon receipt of the request, the comptroller shall notify the applicant thereof.

(3) The applicant shall pay the filing fee and file any necessary translation referred to in section 81(2)(c) for the purpose of section 81(2)(b)(ii) within four months of the date of the notification referred to in paragraph (2).

(4) The applicant shall also, within the period referred to in paragraph (3) above, for the purposes of section 15(5)(b), file Patents Form 9/77 and, for the purposes of section 13(2), file Patents Form 7/77.