Moved by
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
25E: Clause 17, page 16, line 36, leave out from beginning to end of line 2 on page 17 and insert—
(3A) No information shall be sent to a patent office outside the United Kingdom (“the other office”) in reliance on subsection (3)(aa) unless the other office provides the application number of a UK patent application and the application number of a patent application being examined by the other office which claims priority from the UK patent application; and no such request shall be acted on before one year from the filing date of the UK application.
(3B) Any information sent to the other patent office must be limited to information on search or examination carried out on the UK application.
(3C) Information shall not be sent to the other office unless working arrangements have been agreed between the comptroller and the other office, including provision for ensuring that the confidentiality of the information sent to the other office is protected.
(3D) The applicant for a UK application for which a request for information has been made by another office shall be informed of the request and of the information sent to the other office.
(3E) Information shall not be sent to another office in reliance on subsection (3)(aa) unless that other office is an organisation which carries out, in relation to patents, functions of the kind carried out by the patent office and which is on an approved list, which may be varied from time to time by statutory instrument.””