10.—(1) An inventor or joint inventor of an invention, if not mentioned in any published application for a patent, or in any patent granted, for the invention, must be mentioned in an addendum or an erratum to the application or patent.
(2) A person who alleges that any person ought to have been mentioned as the inventor or joint inventor of an invention may apply to the comptroller for that person to be so mentioned—
(a)in any patent granted for the invention; and
(b)if possible in any published application for a patent for the invention,
and, if not so mentioned, in the manner prescribed by paragraph (1).
(3) Subject to rules 21, 58(4), 59(3) and 68(2), the period prescribed for the purposes of section 13(2) is sixteen months [F1beginning immediately after]—
(a)where there is no declared priority date, the date of filing of the application; or
(b)where there is a declared priority date, that date.
(4) A statement filed under section 13(2) must be made on Patents Form 7.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in rule 10(3) substituted (1.10.2011) by The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/2052), rules 1, 3, Sch. (with rule 4)