Schedule 4A, paragraph 1

In the application to supplementary protection certificates of the provisions of this Act listed in sub-paragraph (2)— references to a patent are to a supplementary protection certificate; references to an application or the applicant for a patent are to an application or the applicant— for a supplementary protection certificate, or for an extension of the duration of a supplementary protection certificate; references to the proprietor of a patent are to the holder of a supplementary protection certificate; references to the specification of a patent are to the text of a supplementary protection certificate; references to a patented product or an invention (including a patented invention) are to a product for which a supplementary protection certificate has effect; references to a patent having expired or having been revoked are to a supplementary protection certificate having lapsed or having been declared invalid; references to proceedings for the revocation of a patent are to proceedings— for a decision that a supplementary protection certificate has lapsed, or for a declaration that a supplementary protection certificate is invalid; references to the issue of the validity of a patent include the issue of whether a supplementary protection certificate has lapsed or is invalid. The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are— section 14(1), (9) and (10) (making of application); section 19(1) (general power to amend application before grant); sections 20A and 20B (reinstatement of applications); section 21 (observations by third party on patentability); section 27 (general power to amend specification after grant); section 29 (surrender of patents); sections 30 to 36, 37(1) to (3) and (5) to (9) and 38 (property in patents and applications, and registration); sections 39 to 59 (employees’ inventions, licences of right and compulsory licences and use of patented inventions for services of the Crown); sections 60 to 71 (infringement); section 74(1) and (7) (proceedings in which validity of patent may be put in issue); sections 74A and 74B (opinions by the Patent Office); section 75 (amendment of patent in infringement or revocation proceedings); sections 103 and 105 (privilege for communications relating to patent proceedings); section 108 (licences granted by order of comptroller); sections 110 and 111 (unauthorised claim of patent rights or that patent has been applied for); section 116 (immunity of department as regards official acts); sections 117 to 118 (administrative provisions); section 123 (rules); section 130 (interpretation).

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04