23 Restrictions on applications abroad by United Kingdom residents
Patents Act 1977 (1977 c 37) | Legislation

23  Restrictions on applications abroad by United Kingdom residents

(1)     Subject to the following provisions of this section, no person resident in the United Kingdom shall, without written authority granted by the comptroller, file or cause to be filed outside the United Kingdom an application for a patent for an invention [if subsection (1A) below applies to that application,] unless—

(a)     an application for a patent for the same invention has been filed in the Patent Office (whether before, on or after the appointed day) not less than six weeks before the application outside the United

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