Patents (Amendment) Act 2006

Examination of application for revocation (section 59 of Principal Act).

17.— Section 59 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (3), by deleting “, under section 38,”, and

(b) by inserting the following after subsection (3):

“(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the reference to the specification being amended is to its being amended under section 38 and also, in the case of a European patent designating the State, to its being amended under any provision of the European Patent Convention under which the claims of the patent may be limited by amendment at the request of the proprietor.”.