HC Deb 17 December 1919 vol 123 cc599-600

For paragraph (b) of Sub-section (1) of Section eleven of the principal Act, which relates to the opposition to grants of patents, the following paragraphs shall be substituted— (b) that the invention has been published in any complete specification or in any provisional specification followed by a complete specification deposited pursuant to any application made in the United Kingdom within fifty years next before the date of the application for the patent the grant of which is being opposed, or in any document other than a British specification) published in the United Kingdom prior to the application; or (bb) that the invention has been claimed in any complete specification for a British patent which though not published at the date of the application for a patent the grant of which is opposed will be of prior date to such patent; or and after paragraph (d) of the same Sub-section the following paragraph shrill be inserted— (e) that in the case of an application under Section ninety-one of this Act a specification describes or claims an invention other than that for which protection has been applied for in a foreign state or British possession and that such other invention forms the subject of an application made by the opponent in the interval between the leaving of the application in the foreign state or British possession and the leaving of the application in the United Kingdom.

In paragraph (bb), after the word "opposed," insert the words "was deposited pursuant to an application for a patent which is or."—Agreed to.

At the beginning of paragraph (e), insert the word "or"—Agreed to.