Patents_Act_2004 Knowpia

Patents Act 2004^[1]
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to amend the law relating to patents.
Citation	2004 c. 16
Territorial extent	The same as the Patents Act 1977
Dates
Royal assent	22 July 2004
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Patents Act 2004 (c. 16) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. One of the purposes of the Act is to give effect to the revised European Patent Convention which was agreed by Diplomatic Conference in November 2000.^[3] It also amended employees' rights to compensation for inventions, to enable employee compensation "to be awarded in respect of all outstanding benefits deriving from a patented invention, removing the requirement for an employee to show that the patent itself is of outstanding benefit".^[4]

Section 1 - Methods of treatment or diagnosis edit

This section inserts section 4A of the Patents Act 1977 and defines the expression "the 1977 Act" for the purposes of this Act.

Section 17 - Commencement etc edit

The following orders have been made under this section:

The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 1 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2177 (C. 94))
The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential, etc. and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3205 (C. 140))
The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2471 (C. 105))
The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/3396 (C. 144))

References edit

^ The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 18(1) of this Act.
^ The Patents Act 2004, section 18(2)
^ Explanatory notes, paragraphs 3 and 6
^ Intellectual Property Office, Manual of Patent Practice: Section 40: Compensation of employees for certain inventions, accessed 20 July 2022