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In force2020 Revised Edition

Part 7 · Provisions as to Patents After Grant

37. Patent not to be impugned for lack of unity

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No person may in any proceeding object to a patent or to an amendment of a specification of a patent on the ground that the claims contained in the specification of the patent, as they stand or (as the case may be) as proposed to be amended, relate —

(a)

to more than one invention; or

(b)

to a group of inventions which are not so linked as to form a single inventive concept.

Report

Part 8

Property in Patents and Applications for Patents and Registration

Part 9

Employees’ Inventions

Part 10

Contracts as to Patented Products

Part 11

Licences of Right and Compulsory Licences

Part 12

Use of Patented Inventions for Services of Government

Part 13

Infringement of Patents

Part 14

Revocation of Patents and Validity Proceedings

Part 15

Amendments of Patents and Applications

Part 16

International Applications for Patents

Part 17

Legal Proceedings

Part 18

Offences

Part 19

Patent Agents and Foreign Patent Agents

Part 20

Miscellaneous and General

Schedules