The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

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30.—(1) Article 14 (expiry of the certificate) is amended as follows.

(2) The existing text is numbered as paragraph 1.

(3) For sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) of the renumbered paragraph 1, substitute—

(c)if the prescribed annual fee is not paid in time; [F1or]

(d)if and as long as the product covered by the certificate may no longer be placed on the market following the withdrawal of [F2all] authorizations to place on the market in accordance with Article 28 of Regulation 1107/2009. The comptroller may decide on the lapse of the certificate either of the comptroller's own motion or at the request of a third party..

F3(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 30 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1