78 Effect of filing an application for a European patent (UK)
Patents Act 1977 (1977 c 37) | Legislation

78  Effect of filing an application for a European patent (UK)

(1)     Subject to the provisions of this Act, an application for a European patent (UK) having a date of filing under the European Patent Convention shall be treated for the purposes of the provisions of this Act to which this section applies as an application for a patent under this Act having that date as its date of filing and having the other incidents listed in subsection (3) below, but subject to the modifications mentioned in the following provisions of this section.

(2)     This section applies to the following provisions of this Act:—

section 2(3) and so much of section 14(7) as relates to section 2(3);

section 5;

section 6;

so much of section 13(3) as relates to an application for and issue of a certificate under that subsection;

sections 30 to 33;

section 36;

sections 55 to 69;

[sections 70 to 70F;]

section 74, so far as relevant to any of the provisions mentioned above;

section 111; and

section 125.

(3)     The incidents referred to in subsection (1) above in relation to an application for a European patent (UK) are as follows:—

(a)     any declaration

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