Statutory guidance

Directions: patents forms

Updated 6 March 2020

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1. Directions under section 123(2A) of the Patents Act 1977

  1. The comptroller has made these directions under section 123(2A) of the Patents Act 1977.

  2. These directions come into force on 17 December 2007

  3. The directions made on 6 April 2006 are revoked.

  4. The forms set out in the Schedule to these directions are the forms the use of which is required by the Patents Rules 2007 (SI 2007/3291); they are as follows:

    Patents form 1 (Request for grant of patent)

    Patents form 2 (Initiation of proceedings before the comptroller)

    Patents form 3 (Late additions and declarations of priority)

    Patents form 7 (Statement of inventorship and of right to grant of a patent)

    Patents form 8 (Request for a certificate authorising the release of a sample of biological material)

    Patents form 8A (Notice of intention to restrict the availability of samples of biological material to experts)

    Patents form 9 (Request for a preliminary examination and search)

    Patents form 9A (Request for search)

    Patents form 10 (Request for a substantive examination)

    Patents form 12 (Payment of renewal fee (and additional fee for late payment))

    Patents form 14 (Request to reinstate a patent application)

    Patents form 15 (Notice of opposition)

    Patents form 15 (Application to restore a patent)

    Patents form 17 (Request for opinion as to validity or infringement)

    Patents form 20 (Request to correct a name or address)

    Patents form 21 (Application to register or give notice of rights acquired in a patent or in an application for a patent)

    Patents form 23 (Request for a certificate of the comptroller or a certified or uncertified copy from a file or the register)

    Patents form 28 (Application by the proprietor of a patent for an entry to be made in the register that licences under the patent are available as of right)

    Patents form 30 (Application by the proprietor of a patent to cancel an entry in the register that licences under the patent are available as of right)

    Patents form 49 (Request to be informed of future events relating to a patent application or patent (caveat))

    Patents form 51 (Appointment or change of agent)

    Patents form 52 (Request to extend a prescribed time limit)

    Patents form 54 (Filing a translation in connection with a European patent or a European patent application)

    Patents form SP1 (Application for grant of a supplementary protection certificate)

    Patents form SP2 (Payment of annual fees (and additional fee for late payment))

    Patents form SP3 (Application for declaration of lapse or validity, or to revoke an extension of the duration of a supplementary protection certificate)

    Patents form SP4 (Application for grant of an extension to a supplementary protection certificate)

Ian Fletcher
Comptroller-General of patents, designs and trade marks
5 December 2007

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