Patents (Amendment) Act 2006

Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation – consequential amendments to 1996 Act.

45.— Each provision of the 1996 Act specified in column (1) of the Table to this section is amended as specified in column (2) of that Table opposite the mention of that provision in column (1).

TABLE

Provisions Affected

Amendment

(1)

(2)

Sections 11(1)(c), 60(2), 61(1) and (2), 62(2) and (3) and 63(2)

Insert “or the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation” after “the Paris Convention” in each place where it occurs.

Section 64

Insert the following subsection after subsection (4):

“(5) A reference in this section to Article 6ter of the Paris Convention shall be read as a reference to that Article as applied by the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation.”.