§ Mr. Clinton DavisI beg to move Amendment No. 14, in page 28, line 19, leave out subsection(4).
§ Mr. DavisThese amendments implement the undertaking I gave in Committee to give effect to Amendment No. 46, which was moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English). I am grateful to him for drawing my attention to the point at issue.
We are concerned here with proof in proceedings of entries in the register or of documents kept in the Patent Office or of extracts from such entries or documents. Consideration of my hon. Friend's amendment led to the conclusion that the proper place to deal with this matter was in Clause 35(3). Therefore, Amendment No. 14 deletes Clause 32(4).
Clause 35(3) provides the method of proof for entries and documents to be kept in legible form. Amendment No. 15 helps to make the revised Clause 35(3) easier to read. It is divided into separate paragraphs.
Amendment No. 16 gives effect to my hon. Friend's point about enabling entries in the register which are kept in other than legible form—for example, on magnetic tape or punched cards in a computer—and extracts from such entries to be proved by production of copies in a legible form certified by the Comptroller and bearing the Patent Office seal.
§ Amendment agreed to.