Patents (Amendment) Act 2006

Priority right (section 25 of Principal Act).

7.— Section 25 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by the insertion after “the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property” of “or to the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation”,

(b) in subsection (5), by the insertion after “the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property” of “or which is not a party to the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation”, and

(c) after subsection (5), by the insertion of the following:

“(6) In this section a ‘state party to the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation’ means a member of the World Trade Organisation and, for the purposes of subsection (5), every country or territory shall be taken to be a state in the case of which an order may be made under that subsection.”.