Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. Chapter 48.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1988
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. Chapter 48. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    invention, shall bz taken to infringe any copyright or design right to which, as between him and his employer, his employer is entitled in any model or document respect to employees’ inventions), in subsection (4) (references to patents to include other forms of protection, whether in UK or elsewhere) for ‘“‘in sections 40 to 42” substitute “in sections 39 to 42.”’. Undertaking to take licence in infringement proceedings follows. (2) In subsection (3)(c) (undertaking to take licence in infringement proceedings) after the words “(otherwise than by the importation of any article” insert “‘frora a country which is not a member State of the European Economic ““(3A) An undertaking under subsection (3)(c) above may be given at any time before final order in the proceedings, without any admission of liability.”’. Power of comptroller on grant of compulsory licence 13. In section 49 of the Patents Act 1977 (supplementary provisions with respect to compulsory licences), omit subsection (3) (power to order that licence has effect to revoke existing licences and deprive proprietor of power to work invention or grant licences). Powers exercisable in consequence of report of Monopolies and Mergers Commission | 14. For section 51 of the Patents Act 1977 (licences of right: application by Crown in consequence of report of Monopolies and Mergers Commission) “Powers 51._(1) Where a report of the Monopolies and Mergers exercisablein _ Commission has been laid before Parliament containing sioce hansehee of conclusions to the effect— Re ecotes and (a) on a monopoly reference, that a monopoly situation Mergers exists and facts found by the Commission operate or Commission. may be expected to operate against the public interest, (b) on a merger reference, that a merger situation qualifying for investigation has been created and the creation of the situation, or particular elements in or consequences of it specified in the report, operate or may be expected to operate against the public interest, (c) on a competition reference, that a person was engaged in an anti-competitive practice which operated or may be expected to operate against the public interest, or (d) on areference under section 11 of the Competition Act 1980 (reference of public bodies and certain other persons), that a person is pursuing a course of conduct which operates against the public interest, the appropriate Minister or Ministers may apply to the comptroller to take action under this section.