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Patents Amendment Bill

Where it is in Parliament· last movement 2025-05-22

Introduction
First Reading
Select Committee
Second Reading
Committee of Whole House
Third Reading
Royal Assent
Enacted
What the official record says
This Act is the Patents Amendment Act . This Act comes into force on the day after Royal assent. This Act amends the Patents Act 2013. In section 146(5)(a), replace with . In section 254(2)(d), after , insert applies . In section 254(2)(e), after , insert applies . After section 254(2), insert: apply to a patent granted in respect of a fresh patent application to which applies. On a re-examination of the patent application and the complete specification under section 95, the grounds that a person may specify in a request for re-examination, and that the Commissioner may consider and report on, are 1 or more of the following grounds: a ground in section 41(1)(b) to (d), (g), (h), or (j) to (m) of the Patents Act 1953: that the invention, so far as claimed in a claim, when compared with

Laws this bill changes

  • Patents Act 2013
Plain English breakdown

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