Long title | An Act to amend the law relating to patents. |
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Citation | 2004 c. 16 |
Territorial extent | The same as the Patents Act 1977 [2] |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 22 July 2004 |
Text of statute as originally enacted | |
Revised text of statute as amended |
The Patents Act 2004 (c. 16) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. One of the purposes of the Act is to give effect to the revised European Patent Convention which was agreed by Diplomatic Conference in November 2000. [3] It also amended employees' rights to compensation for inventions, to enable employee compensation "to be awarded in respect of all outstanding benefits deriving from a patented invention, removing the requirement for an employee to show that the patent itself is of outstanding benefit". [4]
This section inserts section 4A of the Patents Act 1977 and defines the expression "the 1977 Act" for the purposes of this Act.
The following orders have been made under this section:
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