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The Patents Rules 2007
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39.—(1) This rule applies where the renewal fee has not been received by the end of the renewal period.
(2) The comptroller must, before the end of the period of six weeks beginning immediately after the end of the renewal period, and if the fee remains unpaid, send a renewal notice to the proprietor of the patent.
(3) The comptroller must send the renewal notice to—
(a)the address specified by the proprietor on payment of the last renewal fee (or to another address that has since been notified to him for that purpose by the proprietor); or
(b)where such an address has not been so specified or notified, the address for service entered in the register.
(4) The renewal notice must remind the proprietor of the patent—
(a)that payment is overdue; and
(b)of the consequences of non-payment.
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