§ 375 Schedule 5, page 180, line 11, leave out from beginning to 'subsection' and insert—
§ '8.—(1) Section 46 of the Patents Act 1977 (licences of right) is amended as 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 "from a country which is not a member state of the European Economic Community".
§ (3) After'.
§ Lord StrathclydeMy Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 375. This is a necessary consequence of a decision by the European Court of Justice earlier this year that present law on patent licences of right is contrary to the EC treaty.
§ Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 375.—(Lord Strathclyde.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.