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Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 2059

Intellectual Property

Patents

The Patents Act 1977 (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Made

19th August 2011

Laid before Parliament

22nd August 2011

Coming into force

1st October 2011

The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, who is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 1 ) in relation to measures relating to copyright( 2 ), makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that subsection.

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Patents Act 1977 (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and come into force on 1st October 2011.

Amendment of Patents Act 1977

2. After section 118 of the Patents Act 1977( 3 ) insert—

“ Copyright in documents made available electronically for inspection under section 118(1)

118A. —(1) This section applies to documents made available for inspection under section 118(1).

(2) Any copyright in the documents is not infringed by—

(a) the making available to the public of the documents by electronic transmission in such a way that members of the public may access the documents from a place and at a time individually chosen by them, or

(b) copying the documents for the purpose of facilitating the making available to the public of the documents as mentioned in paragraph (a).

(3) Nothing in this section is to be read as affecting the generality of any provision made by Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. ” .

Judith Wilcox

Parliamentary Secretary for Business, Innovation and Skills

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

19th August 2011

( 1 )

1972 c.68 .

( 3 )

1977 c.37 .

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The Patents Act 1977 (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (2011/2059)

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