Statutory Instruments
Patents
Made
8th September 2014
Laid before Parliament
9th September 2014
Coming into force
1st October 2014
The Secretary of State makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25(3), 25(5), 32, 74A, 77(5A) and 123 of the Patents Act 1977(1).
1977 c.37; section 25(3) was substituted by section 8(1) of the Patents Act 2004 (c.16), section 32 was substituted by the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c.39), Schedule 1, paragraph 4 and amended by section 13(3) of the Patents Act 2004 (there are other amendments to section 32 but none is relevant), section 74A was inserted by section 13(1) of the Patents Act 2004 and is prospectively amended by section 16(1) of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c.18), and section 77(5A) is prospectively inserted by the Intellectual Property Act 2014, Schedule, paragraph 6. See section 123(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “rules”; there are amendments to section 123 which are not relevant to these Rules.