1

This Order may be cited as the Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 11th July 2001.

NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date

Specified date: 11 July 2001: see above.

2

2

The countries specified in the Schedule to this Order are convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977.

NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date

Specified date: 11 July 2001: see art 1.

3

3

The Patents (Convention Countries) Order 1994 shall be amended by the insertion in Schedule 1 thereto of the countries specified in the Schedule to this Order in proper alphabetical order.

NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date

Specified date: 11 July 2001: see art 1.

Signature

A K Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE   Articles 2 and 3

Bhutan

Nepal

Tonga

NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date

Specified date: 11 July 2001: see art 1.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, made pursuant to section 90(1) of the Patents Act 1977 with a view to the fulfilment of obligations under the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (“the Paris Convention”) (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cmnd. 4431), declares Bhutan, Nepal and Tonga to be convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977. Section 5 of the Patents Act 1977 affords certain rights of priority to applicants for patents, and this Order extends these rights of priority to applications filed in those countries.
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